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'''Chitral''' is the northernmost district in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and is a former ]. Despite being in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Chitral is not a Pashtun area. Chitral shares much of its history and culture with the neighboring ] territories of ], ] and ], a region sometimes called "Peristan" because of the common belief in fairies (''peri'') inhabiting the high mountains. The major language of Chitral is ], a ] langanuage known as Chitrali language. Accoording to the research of ], Director ] most of the minority languages spoken in Chitral are also Dardic including ], ], ], ], ] and ]. ] spoken by immigrant groups in Chitral include ], ], and ]. An indigenous Iranian language spoken in Chitral is ]. There are also migrants form ] who speak several ] dialects. Finally there is a large community if ] herdmen who were originally nomadic, but have now settled permanently in parts of Lower Chitral and they speak the ] ] Language. |
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Thus Chitral is considered to be one of the most lingusitically diverse regions in the world, but nearly all of these groups use ] as a lingua-franca for inter-ethnic communication, except for the southernmost part of the district where Pashto plays that role. |
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