Tirahi Explained
Tirahi (Pushto; Pashto: تيراهي) are Indo-Aryan people who are native and original inhabitants of Tirah valley. They are closely related to their Dardic neighbours[1] and speak Tirahi language, a nearly extinct if not already extinct[2] Indo-Aryan language which may still be spoken by older adults, who are likewise fluent in Pashto, in a few villages in the southeast of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.[3] They were the previous inhabitants of Tirah and the Peshawar Valley in modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Tirahis were expelled from Tirah by the Afridi Pashtuns.[4] Georg Morgenstierne claimed that Tirahi language is "probably the remnant of a dialect group extending from Tirah through the Peshawar district into Swat and Dir."[5]
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Notes and References
- Book: Arlinghaus, Joseph Theodore . The Transformation of Afghan Tribal Society: Tribal Expansion, Mughal Imperialism and the Roshaniyya Insurrection, 1450-1600 . 1988 . Duke University . en. 177.
- Web site: Tirahi . Ethnologue . 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)..
- Web site: Tirahi . Ethnologue . en.
- Book: Konow, Sten . Sten Konow . 1933 . Acta Orientalia, Volumes 11-12 . Munksgaard . 161.
- Turner. R. L.. 1 January 1934. Review of Report on a Linguistic Mission to North-Western India. 25201006. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 4. 801–803. 10.1017/S0035869X00112675. 163506530 .
