Kho people

Kho
کھو
Chitrali men along with Mehtar Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir, the current head of the Katoor Dynasty
Total population
c. 800,000 (2021)
Regions with significant populations
Chitral and Gilgit Baltistan
Languages
L1: Khowar (native language)
L2: Urdu (national language)
Religion
Islam (Predominantly Sunni, followed by Ismailism)
Related ethnic groups
Other Indo-Aryan peoples

The Kho (/koʊ/, Khowar: کھو), or Chitrali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Chitral District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan. They speak an Indo-Aryan language called Khowar.

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