Nuristani people
نورِستانی | |
|---|---|
 Nuristani girl | |
| Total population | |
| c.100,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Nuristan Province Chitral District | |
| Languages | |
| Nuristani Dari, Urdu and Pashto also understood widely as second languages | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Muslims | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Kalash people |
Nuristanis (نورِستانی) are a group of ethnic groups living in the Hindu Kush areas of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. They speak the Nuristani languages of the Indo-Iranian language family.