Tirahi

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A language of Afghanistan

ISO 639-3
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User Population

100. Ethnic population: 5,000.

Location

Nangarhar province: Nangarhar village southeast of Jalalabad, west of Khyber Pass.

Language Status

8b (Nearly extinct).

Classification
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Northwestern, Dardic, Kohistani
Dialects

None known. Most closely related to Kohistani languages of Pakistan.

Language Use

Elderly only. Most shifted to Southern Pashto [pbt].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Tirahi
Writing

Unwritten [Qaax].

Other Comments

It is very likely that this language is extinct. The Tirahi are ‘a group of unclear origin, almost completely assimilated by Pashtun’ (Pstrusinska and Gray 1990). Muslim.