The Torwali, or Turvali, language is spoken in Kohistan

Kohistan District (Pakistan)

Kohistan has two distinct meanings in Pakistan. In Persian "koh" means "peak" and "istaan" means "land of". In its usual modern sense Kohistan District is an administrative district within Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province covering an area of 7,492 sq.kilometres; it had a population of...

 and Swat

Swat (Pakistan)

Swat is a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, located close to the Afghan-Pakistan border. It is the upper valley of the Swat River, which rises in the Hindu Kush range. The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, but the main town in the Swat valley is Mingora...

 districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. 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

Pashto language

Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...

-speaking town of Madyan up to the Gawri-speaking town of Kalam. According to Rehmat Aziz Chitrali the Pakistani Researcher and Director Khowar Academy

Khowar Academy

Khowar Academy is an Khowar language organisation founded by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali in 1996 in Karachi for the promotion of Khowar language and other fourteen languages of Chitral Pakistan...

 the total speakers of Torwali language are 90,000 (2011) There are two dialects of Torwali: Bahrain and Chail.

External links

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