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Tirahi
Tirahi
were non-Pashtun
Dard people
who were the previous
inhabitants
of
Tirah
and the
Peshawar Valley
in
modern-day
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
. They
spoke
Tirahi language
, a
Dardic language
of the
Kohistani
group, 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
.
The Tirahis were expelled from Tirah 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
."