[4] Georg Morgenstierne claimed that Tirahi is "probably the remnant of a dialect group extending from Tirah through the Peshawar district into Swat and Dir.

"[5] Spoken in the Nangarhar Province of Northeastern Afghanistan, there are about 100 native speakers today, if any.

Tirahi is also spoken in a couple of villages southeast of the Afghan city of Jalalabad,[6] such as Jaba, Mitarani, and Bara-khel.

Since Tirahi is entirely separated from the other Dardic languages, located south of the Kabul River and west of the Khyber Pass, rendering it wholly encased by Pashto.

"[5] Tirahi is an inflected language, having 5 cases: Nominative, Oblique, Genitive, Dative, and Ablative.