Tirahi language
Tirahi is a nearly extinct if not already extinct Indo-Aryan language spoken in a few villages in the southeast of Jalalabad in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan. It is spoken by older adults, who are likewise fluent in Pashto.
| Tirahi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | perhaps 5,000 (no date) |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 100) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tra |
| Glottolog | tira1253 |
| ELP | Tirahi |
The Tirahis were expelled from Tirah in the present-day Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, by the Afridi Pashtuns. Georg Morgenstierne claimed that Tirahi is "probably the remnant of a dialect group extending from Tirah through the Peshawar district into Swat and Dir."
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