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Loanwords
The khowar has many loanwords from other neighbouring languages (like persian languages, avestan, ancient greek, sanskrit and pamiri) until 1712 this language was spoken along with persian due to it was under the rule of persian empire but after 1712 this region was exclude with badakhshan and was considered part of india where hindustani was official language in every field.

During 19th century some loan words were taken from hindustani language in khowar and some words were converted with addition of -Gh and -χ Kai for example aas is hindustani language word for hope it was taken in khowar as afas, kia which means what in khowar it is taken as Kiaχ (kiakh).