| Tirahi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | perhaps 5,000 (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 100)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tra |
| Glottolog | tira1253 |
| ELP | Tirahi |
Tirahi is a nearly extinct if not already extinct[2] Indo-Aryan language[3] 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.[1]
The Tirahis were expelled from Tirah in the present-day Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, by the Afridi Pashtuns.[4] Georg Morgenstierne claimed that Tirahi is "probably the remnant of a dialect group extending from Tirah through the Peshawar district into Swat and Dir."[5]
- ^ a b c Tirahi at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ "Tirahi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
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).
- ^ Prakāśaṃ, Vennelakaṇṭi (2008-01-01). Encyclopaedia of the Linguistic Sciences: Issues and Theories. Allied Publishers. p. 143. ISBN 9788184242799.
- ^ Konow, Sten (1933). Acta Orientalia, Volumes 11-12. Munksgaard. p. 161.
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