Peshawar's traditional mother tongue is Hindko (specifically the Peshawari dialect), which is still spoken in the central, older parts of the city. However, due to urbanization, migration, and the influence of surrounding areas, Pashto has become the dominant language and the primary mother tongue for most inhabitants today.
The dominant language of the Province is Pashto, which belongs to the Irani branch of the Aryan family of languages. It has two main dialects: Pakhto and Pashto.
Pashto is the main language in the province, except for some areas where Punjabi predominates, and virtually all of the population is Muslim. Only a small part of the overall population is urban. The province's major cities include Peshawar, Mardan, Mingaora, Kohat, and Abbottabad.
Peshawar is the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and it's inhabited by Pashtun people. They share the common cultural and historical ties with Afghans. Once the center of Buddhism, Peshawar is now a very conservative Muslim province. It´s reasonable to study cultural background before visiting.
It is also a cultural and economic hub of KPK. Peshawar city is famous for its Traditional food & tourism as it is one of the oldest cities of Pakistan with a recorded history that dates back to 539 BC.
Hindko to some extent is mutually intelligible with Punjabi and Saraiki, and has more affinities with the latter than with the former. There is a nascent language movement, and in recent decades Hindko-speaking intellectuals have started promoting the view of Hindko as a separate language.
Once the capital of the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Gandhara, the city was known variously as Parasawara and Purusapura (town, or abode, of Purusa); it was also called Begram. The present name, Peshawar (pesh awar, “frontier town”), is ascribed to Akbar, the Mughal emperor of India (1556–1605).
Torghar District or Tor Ghar (means "Black mountain"), formerly Kala Dhaka , is the smallest district of Pakistan and one of the 26 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Some historians believed the Indus civilisation was destroyed in a large war. Hindu poems called the Rig Veda (from around 1500 BC) describe northern invaders conquering the Indus Valley cities. In the 1940s, archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler discovered 39 human skeletons at Mohenjo-Daro.
The person known for speaking 42 languages fluently is Canadian polyglot Powell Alexander Janulus, who received the Guinness World Record in 1985 after passing fluency tests in those languages, working as a court interpreter and learning new languages continuously. While Janulus is the most specific answer for 42 languages, other hyperpolyglots like Ziad Fazah and historical figures like Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti have claimed even higher numbers, though with varying levels of verification.
