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Languages of Chitral

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Chitral is the northernmost district in Pakistan's and is a former Princely State. Despite being in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chitral is not a Pashtun area. Chitral shares much of its history and culture with the neighboring territories of Gilgit-Baltistan, The major languages are;

Finally there is a large community if Gujjar herdmen who were originally nomadic, but have now settled permanently in parts of Lower Chitral and they speak the Indo-Aryan Gojri Language.

Thus Chitral is considered to be one of the most lingusitically diverse regions in the world, but nearly all of these groups use chitrali language as a lingua-franca for inter-ethnic communication.

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