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The Yousafzai is the largest ethnic Afghan/Pashtun tribe. Yousafzai translates into English as "The Sons of Joseph": Yousaf = Joseph, zai = son of. Their spoken langagues is Pashto, which the Yousefzai are considered to have the most pure spoken form of.

Other spellings include:

• Euzefzai
• Yusefzai
• Yosefzai
• Yousefzai

majority of them r in pakistan and live in the areas of mardan malakand and swabi

Yousafzais have great history of bravery against their rivals through out the over past centuries esp against the Pashtun tribes Swati and Dilazak. Suleman shah was the elder of Yousafzais when Alag Baig was the ruler of Kabul. Shiekh Mali, Khan Kajo, Shah Mansoor and Malik Ahmed are the worth moentioning personalities of the tribe. They have captured the whole Swat, Malakad and Dir in two dacades. Yousafzais migeratted from Kabul to refudge in the plains Peshawat and the hilly areas of Swat, where nine hundred Chiefs heads have been chopped off by Mirza Alag baig in the late 15th century. Actually the Pashtun's living in Swat are also for the most part Yousafzai's. And while these residents of Swat may be referred to as Swati's there is in fact no Pashtun tribe of that name in Swat. The original Pashtun Tribe Swati now lives in Hazara and some in Dir of N.W.F.P of Pakistan, where Swatis defeated the Turks and captured the hills and plains of Pakhali (now called Hazara division) . Pashtun's own pronounciation of Yousafzai would sound as "eeSupzaye" Quite often they have trouble pronouncing the letter "P". Some of the famous clans and subsections of the Yousafzais are Eessa, Moosa, Malizai, Akozai, Chagharzai, Orba, Madakhel and Bazikhel.

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