Tirahi (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]

See also

• Orakzai
• Pashtun tribes

References

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