Khowar (کھوار), also known as Chitrali, is a Dardic language spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighbouring Gilgit, and in parts of Upper Swat. Speakers of Khowar have also migrated heavily to Pakistan's major urban centres with Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, having sizeable populations. It is spoken as a second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza.

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  • Khowar (کھوار), also known as Chitrali, is a Dardic language spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighbouring Gilgit, and in parts of Upper Swat. Speakers of Khowar have also migrated heavily to Pakistan's major urban centres with Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, having sizeable populations. It is spoken as a second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza. There are believed to be small numbers of Khowar speakers in Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan and Istanbul. Khowar has been influenced by Iranian languages to a greater degree than other Dardic languages and has less Sanskritic elements than Shina or the Kohistani languages. Colonel Biddulph (Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh) was amongst the first westerners to study Khowar and claimed that further research would prove Khowar to be equally derived from Zend and Sanskrit. The Norwegian Linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha-mun, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Yidgha, Burushaski, Gujar, Wakhi, Kyrgyz, Persian and Pashto. Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu, Pakistan's national language.
  • Khowar ist eine indoeuropäische Sprache, die im Norden Pakistans gesprochen wird. Sie bildet gemeinsam mit der benachbarten Sprache Kalasha-mun die Chitral-Subgruppe des dardischen Zweigs der indoarischen Sprachen.
  • Le khowar est une langue indo-aryenne du sous-groupe des langues dardiques, parlée dans les montagnes du Nord du Pakistan. Le khowar est parlé par environ 200 000 personnes, les Khos. C'est la principale langue du district de Chitral, où elle s'est imposée comme langue de communication. D'autres communautés de Khos sont présentes dans le district de Gilgit, dans la vallée du Swat, de Yasin et au Tadjikistan, dans la région autonome du Haut-Badakhchan.
  • Khowar er et språk som snakkes i provinsene Chitral, Yasin-dalen, Gilgit-dalen og Swat i Pakistan. Khowar tilhører den indoeuropeiske språkfamilien, og er i den dardiske undergruppa av den indoariske greina.
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  • Khowar (کھوار), also known as Chitrali, is a Dardic language spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighbouring Gilgit, and in parts of Upper Swat. Speakers of Khowar have also migrated heavily to Pakistan's major urban centres with Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, having sizeable populations. It is spoken as a second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza.
  • Khowar ist eine indoeuropäische Sprache, die im Norden Pakistans gesprochen wird. Sie bildet gemeinsam mit der benachbarten Sprache Kalasha-mun die Chitral-Subgruppe des dardischen Zweigs der indoarischen Sprachen.
  • Le khowar est une langue indo-aryenne du sous-groupe des langues dardiques, parlée dans les montagnes du Nord du Pakistan. Le khowar est parlé par environ 200 000 personnes, les Khos. C'est la principale langue du district de Chitral, où elle s'est imposée comme langue de communication. D'autres communautés de Khos sont présentes dans le district de Gilgit, dans la vallée du Swat, de Yasin et au Tadjikistan, dans la région autonome du Haut-Badakhchan.
  • Khowar er et språk som snakkes i provinsene Chitral, Yasin-dalen, Gilgit-dalen og Swat i Pakistan. Khowar tilhører den indoeuropeiske språkfamilien, og er i den dardiske undergruppa av den indoariske greina.
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