| Khowar | |
|---|---|
| کھوار زبان | |
 Khowar written in the Khowar alphabet in Nastaliq style. | |
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Chitral District |
| Ethnicity | Kho |
Native speakers | 580,000 (2020)[1] |
| Khowar alphabet (In Nastaliq style.) | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Association for the Promotion of Khowar[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | khw |
| Glottolog | khow1242 |
| ELP | Khowar |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAB-aa |
 Khowar is a minor language of Pakistan which is mainly spoken in Chitral, it is given a space in this map. | |
 Areas where Khowar is spoken. | |
Khowar (Khowar: کھوار زبان, romanized: khowār, IPA: [kʰɔːwaːr]), or Chitrali, is a Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan language family primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan.[3]
Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral,[3] and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, as well in the Upper Swat district.[4]
Speakers of Khowar have also migrated heavily to Pakistan's major urban centres, with Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi having significant populations. It is also spoken as a second language by the Kalash people.[5][6]
- ^ Khowar at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Faizi, Inayatullah. "Development of Khowar as a Literacy Language, Results of interaction between linguists and language community: Case study in Chitral, Northern Pakistan" (PDF). NWFP-Pakistan: Govt Degree College Chitral.
- ^ a b Jain, Danesh; Cardona, George (26 July 2007). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. p. 843. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9.
- ^ Cardona, George (2007). The Indo-Aryan Languages. p. 843.
- ^ Heegård Petersen, Jan (30 September 2015). "Kalasha texts – With introductory grammar". Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 47 (sup1): 1–275. doi:10.1080/03740463.2015.1069049. ISSN 0374-0463. S2CID 218660179.
- ^ M. Oranskij, “Indo-Iranica IV. Tadjik (Régional) Buruǰ ‘Bouleau,’” in Mélanges linguistiques offerts à Émile Benveniste, Paris, 1975, pp. 435–40.
