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Revision as of 03:45, 26 July 2015 by EPLISON (talk | contribs) (→Languages)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Chitral is the northernmost district in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and is a former Princely State. Despite being in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Chitral is not a Pashtun Area. Chitral shares much of its history and culture with the neighboring Hindu-Kush territories of Gilgit-Baltistan, a region sometimes called "Peristan" because of the common belief in fairies (peri) inhabiting the high mountains.
Languages
Kohwari, is the main spoken language. Acording to the research of Rehmat Aziz, Director Kohwari Academy most of the minority languages are Dardic including; Arniya,Shina, Kashmiri, Kalasha, Gawar Bati,Kohwari,Dameli,Pashayi,Shina,Kohistani, and Palula.
Iranian languages spoken by immigrant groups in Chitral include groups such as Afghans (it's various ethnic groups) includes; Farsi,Pushtun,Munji, Yidgha,Tajik,Wakhi,Kyrgyz and Uzbek.
Thus Chitral is considered to be one of the most lingusitically diverse regions in the world, but nearly all of these groups use Kohwari as a lingua-franca for inter-ethnic communication, except for the southernmost part of the district.