Nuristani people
![]() Nuristani girl | |
Total population | |
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ca. 125,000–300,000[source?] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Nuristan Province | |
Languages | |
Nuristani Dari and Pashto also understood widely as second languages | |
Religion | |
Mostly Sunni Muslims | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Kalash people |
Nuristanis are an ethnic group living in the Hindu Kush areas mainly in Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan, whose languages are from the Indo-Iranian branch known as Nuristani languages.