Tirahi

A language of Afghanistan

ISO 639: tra
Population: 100. Ethnic population: 5,000.
Location:: Nangarhar province: Nangarhar village southeast of Jalalabad, west of Khyber Pass.
Language Status: 8b (Nearly extinct).
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Northwestern, Dardic, Kohistani
Dialects: None known. Most closely related to Kohistani languages of Pakistan.
Language Use: Elderly only. Most shifted to Southern Pashto [pbt].
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Tirahi
Writing: Unwritten [Qaax].
Other Comments: 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). Muslim.

Location: Nangarhar province: Nangarhar village southeast of Jalalabad, west of Khyber Pass.