Kho people

For the ethnic group in Vietnam, see K'ho people.

Kho
کھو
Chitrali men along with Mehtar Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir, the current head of the Katoor Dynasty
Total population
c. 800,000 (2021)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Chitral and Gilgit Baltistan
Languages
Khowar
Religion
Predominantly Hanafi Sunni Islam[2]
Minority Ismaili Shia Islam[2]
Related ethnic groups
Other Indo-Aryan peoples

The Kho (/koʊ/,[3] Khowar: کھو), or Chitrali people,[4] are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group[5] native to the Chitral District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.[6] They speak an Indo-Aryan language called Khowar.[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Olson, James Stuart (1998). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-313-28853-1.
  3. ^ O'Leary, Clare F.; Rensch, Calvin Ross; Decker, Sandra J. (1992). Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan: Languages of Chitral. National Institute of Pakistan /* Location and demographics */ at Quaid-i-Azam University. p. 22.
  4. ^ Osella, Filippo; Osella, Caroline (16 May 2013). Islamic Reform in South Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-107-27667-3.
  5. ^ Olson, James Stuart (1998). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-313-28853-1. The Kho people are the most important ethnic group in the Chitral region of northern Pakistan. They are an Indo-Aryan people who are Muslims, primarily Sunnis of the Hanafi tradition.
  6. ^ "Khowar". Ethnologue.
  7. ^ "Khowar". Ethnologue.