Tirahi language
| Tirahi | |
|---|---|
| Tirāhī, Dardu | |
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | perhaps 5,000 Tirahi (no date) |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 100) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tra |
| Glottolog | tira1253 |
| ELP | Tirahi |
Tirahi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Tirahi is a nearly extinct if not already extinct Indo-Aryan language spoken in a few villages in the southeast of Jalalabad in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan. It is spoken by older adults, who are likewise fluent in Pashto.
The Tirahis were expelled from Tirah in the present-day Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, by the Afridi Pashtuns. Georg Morgenstierne claimed that Tirahi is "probably the remnant of a dialect group extending from Tirah through the Peshawar district into Swat and Dir."