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Chitral is the northernmost district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It used to be the largest district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before splitting up into Upper Chitral district and Lower Chitral district. Chitral was a former Princely State ruled by the Mehtars. Despite being in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chitral is not a Pashtun area. Chitral shares much of its history and culture with the neighboring territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, Nuristan and Badakhshan. The Norwegian Linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that "Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world". Khowar is the majority language of Chitral District but more than 14 other languages are also spoken in Chitral.

(Red) Location of Chitral in Pakistan.

More then 14 different languages are spoken in Chitral including Sarikoli, Kyrgyz, Wakhi, Khowar, Madaklashti (Tajik), Gojri, Pashto, Palula, Dameli, Kamviri, Gawar-bati, Dari (Persian), Dangariwar, Shina Burushaski, Sheikhwar, Mumviri, Kalasha, Yidgha.

Languages

Sarikoli

Sarikoli language belongs to the pamir sub-group of southeastern Iranian languages spoken by the tajik people. Majority of sarikoli speakers live in china's Xinjiang province but a few speakers can also be found in the extreme north of Chitral next to the Chinese border.

Kyrgyz

Kyrgyz is a turkic language of the kipchak branch spoken in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, China and by a few thousands ethnic kyrgyz in Broghil in extreme north of Chitral.

Madaklashti

Madaklashti or Madaglashti is a dialect of Persian (Tajik) an Iranic language, Madaklashti is closely related to Dari and Tajik languages, It is spoken in Madaklasht valley of Southern Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by the Tajik people. The number of Madaglashti speakers are around 3,000-4,000.

Kamviri

Kamviri is a dialect of Kamkata-vari language with belongs to the Nuristani group of Indo-European language family. It is spoken by kata and kom people is southern Chitral. This language is also spoken in the Nuristan province of Afghanistan.

Burushaski

Burushaski is an language Isolate mostly spoken in the Hunza, Nagar and Yasin districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan by the Burusho people, A small number of people of this language is also found in upper chitral district.

See also

References

  1. ^ "About". lowerchitral.kp.gov.pk. Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  2. "14 languages spoken in Chitral". PAMIR TIMES. 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  3. "14 languages spoken in Chitral". PAMIR TIMES. 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  4. "Madaklasht Valley-Unseen Persian Community In Hindukush Mountains". Travel Pakistani. Retrieved 2022-04-25.


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