Tirahi () are
Indo-Aryan people who are native and original inhabitants of
Tirah valley. They are closely related to their Dardic neighbours
and speak
Tirahi language, a nearly extinct if not already extinct
Indo-Aryan language which may still be spoken by older adults, who are likewise fluent in
Pashto
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, in a few villages in the southeast of
Jalalabad
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in
Nangarhar Province
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,
Afghanistan
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. They were the previous inhabitants of
Tirah and the
Peshawar Valley in modern-day
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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,
Pakistan
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.
The Tirahis were expelled from Tirah by the
Afridi Pashtuns.
claimed that Tirahi language is "probably the remnant of a dialect group extending from Tirah through the
Peshawar district into
Swat and
Dir."
See also
*
Orakzai
*
Pashtun tribes
References
Karlani Pashtun tribes
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