Torwali language

Torwali
Spoken in	Pakistan
Native speakers	60,000 (1987 estimate, 90,000 (2011 Source Khowar Academy)  (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Dardic Kohistani Torwali
Writing system	Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	trw

The Torwali (Urdu:توروالی), or Turvali, language is spoken in Kohistan and Swat districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. The language is indigenous to the Torwali people who live in scattered hamlets in the mountainous upper reaches of the Swat valley, above the Pashto-speaking town of Madyan up to the Gawri-speaking town of Kalam. According to Rehmat Aziz Chitrali the Pakistani Researcher and Director Khowar Academy the total speakers of Torwali language are 90,000 (2011) There are two dialects of Torwali: Bahrain and Chail.

Bibliography

• Biddulph, John (1880). "Tribes of the Hindukush".
• Grierson, George (1929). "Torwali: An account of a Dardic language of the Swat Kohistan".
• Lunsford, Wayne A. (2001), "An overview of linguistic structures in Torwali, a language of Northern Pakistan", M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, http://www.fli-online.org/documents/languages/torwali/wayne_lunsford_thesis.pdf 
• Ullah, Inam (2004). "Lexical database of the Torwali Dictionary", paper presented at the Asia Lexicography Conference, Chiangmai, Thailand, May 24–26.

External links

• http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/torwali/ A digital Torwali-English dictionary with audio