Torwali language

Torwali
Torwali
توروالی
	Torwali written in Perso-Arabic in Nastaliq style.
Region	Swat District
Ethnicity	Torwali people
Native speakers	130,000 (2020)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Dardic Ghandhari languages Torwali; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic script (primarily Nastaliq)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	trw
Glottolog	torw1241
ELP	Torwali
	Torwali is a minor language of Pakistan which is mainly spoken by Torwali nation of Central Swat District, it is given a space in this map.

Torwali (توروالی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Torwali people, and concentrated in the Bahrain and Chail areas of the Swat District in Pakistan. The Torwali language is said to have originated from the pre-Muslim communities of Swat. It is the closest modern Indo-Aryan language still spoken today to Niya, a dialect of Gāndhārī, a Middle Indo-Aryan language spoken in the ancient region of Gandhara.

Torwali is an endangered language: it is characterised as "definitely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of Endangered Languages, and as "vulnerable" by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages. There have been efforts to revitalize the language since 2004, and mother tongue community schools have been established by Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT).

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