Southern Pashto

Southern Pashto is a standard variety of the Pashto language spoken in southeastern Afghanistan, and northern parts of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, comprising the Southwestern and Southeastern dialects of Pashto.

South Western

Kandahārí Pashtó, also known as, Southwestern Pashto, is a Pashto dialect, spoken in southern and western Afghanistan, including the city of Kandahar.
Kandahari Pashto is spoken in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, most of Urozgan, Farah, Faryab and Nimruz, southeastern Ghor, the districts of Murghab, Ghormach, Muqur, and Jawand in Badghis, and parts of Zabul, Paktika, and Herat provinces of Afghanistan. It is also spoken in parts of the provinces of Razavi Khorasan and South Khorasan in Iran, where they numbered roughly 120,000.
It is one of the most archaic varieties of Pashto: the Kandahari dialect retains archaic retroflex sibilants, and . Kandahari also has the affricates and.

According to the "Pashto Dialectal Dictionary " published by the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan the following is noted in Kandahar province:

In the South Eastern dialect, and in South Western sometimes change to ʃ and ʒ. Whilst and are generally pronounced.

In all 3rd-person pronouns 'h' is not articulated. And distinction in 'he' and 'she' pronouns is not noted.

Kākaṛi is classed as Southeastern dialect. The following has been noted:

Kākaṛi	Literary Pashto	Grammar	Meaning
بم bam	به مې bə me	bə: future / past habitual marker me: Weak Oblique 1st Pronoun	Example: ای د سترګو ديد بم سره کله کږي āi də stə́rgo did bam sará kə́la káži Oh when will my eyes' viewing
امۍ amə́i	ګډا gaḍā́	Direct Singular Feminine Noun	dance
راله rā́la	راغله rā́ğla	come: Aorist Past 3rd Person Feminine Singular	came
سي si	چې če	that: Particle	that

According to Josef Elfenbein, Sherani Pashto can be classed either as South Western or South Eastern. Word choice can be distinct:

In Marwat-Bettani the following is noted:

Dialect	ښ	ږ	څ	ځ	ژ	ش
Marwat						,

Compare the words

Marwatwala agrees with other Karlāṇi varieties in the phonetic change in ښ as .
Example:

It is noted by Yousuf Khan Jazab, in Marwatwala ش can be rendered as.
Example: