Dardic people,pashai,nuristani,chitrali and others

[gadoonwal]

List of dardic people.

pashai,
nuristani
gilgit baltistani
kohistani
chitrali
and others

In pashtunkhwa they are living in chitral,swat,kohistan,dir.
In swat the kohistanis in upper swat speak ,,torwali ,,,language but can speak pashtu too.
The distt of kohistan is majority kohistani speaking but can speak pashtu.
Many yousufzai pashtuns are also living in kohistan.
In upper Dir the kohistanis are the 2nd ethnic group after malizai pashtun.


In afghanistan.
Nuristan majority nuristani speak their own language.
Kunar,,nuristani and pashias are in good number.PASHTUN are majority in kunar.IN KUNAR MANY GUJAR ALSO LIVES.


Laghman,,,,pashia are in good number after pashtuns followed by tajiks and gujar.
Nangarhar is another provinve where pashais lives in but in small number.

Gilgit baltistan in pakistan the dard people are majority.



The dardic people are influence by pashtuns in some areas but they are not related to pashtuns at all.

[Bannuchi]

The largest number of Dardics (over 5 million) live in the Kashmir Valley and speak Kashmiri language.

[Karachi]

Kalash are also dardic, dardic people are said to be closes to original Indo Aryans today. a lot of early Vedic stories and writings took place in Dardic lands

[Kushan Prince]

Pashais are pashtuns not dardic.

[gadoonwal]

Pashais are pashtuns not dardic.

you can call them if you want but they are not pashtun by origin at all.

[Kushan Prince]

you can call them if you want but they are not pashtun by origin at all.

Says who? pashai themselves say they are pashtuns speaking a special language. There name even sounds close to "pashtun'. Oh and who says kohistanis are dardic?

[Karachi]

any more info on kohistanis?

[Kushan Prince]

Here are some Pashai people who look like they can pass for Nuristanis. I always thought Pashais would look more like Pashtuns since their close proximity.


Noor Rahman; A famous Pashto singer during the pre-soviet era and was from Dara-I-Nur district of Nangarhar which is is overwhelmingly Pashai.




Semira Pashai;





Random pashai singer

[Khilji]

very interesting thx for sharing

[ډګروال]

pashai and nuristanis are most likely the same people.
Pashais mostly live in pashtuns areas especially jalalabad.
they mostly speak Pashto and pashai.

[Badlun]

These language sin Afghanistan are endangered


Askunu language

Kalasha-ala language

Mogholi language

Rushani language

Tirahi language

Tregami language

Vasi-vari language
List of endangered languages in Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Kushan Prince]

pashai and nuristanis are most likely the same people.
Pashais mostly live in pashtuns areas especially jalalabad.
they mostly speak Pashto and pashai.

Yeah i think your right, both are dardic people and have similar beliefs. Maybe they left their original home in Chitral to Afghanistan? who knows.

[waterbear_waterbear]

Pashais are pashtuns not dardic.

So Hindkowans are Pashtuns not Indians?

[Khilji]

So Hindkowans are Pashtuns not Indians?

maybe the waterbears are also a pashtuns who knows

[imazharyes]

For you all ignorant fellows Dard is a linguistic group not an ethnic one. They are genetically not the same people but their language has some resemblance to one another. They have different people and are not one. They are also different from Pushtoon.