Chitral
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![]() Clockwise from top: view of Chitral valley and snowcapped peak of Tirich Mir, Chitral's Shahi Qilla, Shahi Mosque, Chitral Fort | |
Coordinates: 35°50′46″N 71°47′09″E / 35.84611°N 71.78583°E | |
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
District | Chitral District |
Established | 14 August 1947 |
Government | |
• Body | MNA |
• MNA (NA-32) | Moulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali (APML)[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 35.9[2] km2 (Formatting error: invalid input when rounding sq mi) |
Elevation | 1,517 m (4,977 ft) |
Languages | |
• Official | Khowar[4] |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
PIN | 1720 – 0xx[5] |
Area code | 0934 |
Website | chitral |
Chitral (Urdu: چترال, Khowar: چھترار) is the capital city of the Chitral District in Pakistan. It is on the western bank of the Chitral River. It has a population of 20,000.
Chitral is place of great language diversity. The official language are Chitrali and Panjabi, though Khowar is the most spoken language. Most languages in Chitral are either Dardic languages, Iranic languages, or Nuristani languages. Around 24 languages are spoken in Chitral[6] including Central Asian Arabic, Balti, Burushaski, Dameli, Domaaki, Dari Farsi, Dangariwar, Gawar-Bati, Kalasha-mun, Kalkoti, Kamviri, Kohistani, Khowar, Kyrgyz, Madaklashti, Munji, Palula, Shekhani, Shina, Torwali, Turkmen, Ushoji, Uzbek, Waigali, Wakhi, and Yidgha.
Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.[7]