Category: Mother Tongue Literacy
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Afghonistan en Tosh Khon et Gũl-e Qũrbon-e Ghafch Dilchasp et Pũrmaghz K̃hikwor Zhindag: A Legendary Wakhi Folktale of Tosh Khon and Gul-e Qurbon from Afghanistan
Cẽ Fazal Amin Beg en Khokah (Abstract) Yem kum nivishetk ki dẽ trẽ pũrũtem wũzmetk, yemi yi ghafch pũrmaghz, dilchasp woz verz K̃hikwor zhindag kumdi ki bilkhusus ghafch ma’ruf et mashhũr dẽ Osyo-ae Miyona-e (Central Asia) K̃hikev mulung. Yem zhindag-e nungi “Tosh Khon et Gũl-e Qũrbon.” Yem nivishetk-e maqsadi yi kushish k̃hak k̃he K̃hikwor ziker…
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Rural Development Initiatives in the Northern Pakistan through a Lens of A Dedicated Community Leader: Madam Bibi Husni Khan of Hunza Shares Experiences on Women Empowerment
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction Imagine an extremely backward mountain society which was isolated from the rest of the world before the formal opening of the Karakoram Highway in 1978 and it had become only four years when a revolutionary rural development program is introduced with the name of Aga Khan Rural Support program (prominently…
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Globalization and the Fate of Languages with Small Population in the Current Context: Experiential Knowledge from the Field and Analysis of some Ground Realities
By Fazal Amin Beg In this small article, I try to contribute a bit on the concept of globalization based on my experiential knowledge in adition to the review of available body of literatures.It is then followed with the ground realities and a bit analysis I present on the prevalent worldviews of the people speaking…
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An Exclusive Interview of Fazal Amin Beg on Wakhi Scripts Politics for Global Wakhi Language Literacy Channel
Part-1: Introduction, Rationales of Script debates and politics In the name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful Welcome to the Global Wakhi Language Literacy. I’m Gul Baig Wakhani (GBW). Today, with me here is Mr. Fazal Amin Beg (FAB) of Gulmit Gojal (Hunza). As you know better that in the social media, for…
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How to Preserve and Promote the Endangered Sariqoli (Sarikoli) Tajik Language of China on Anglicized Orthography?
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction This little contribution I present here is with regard to Sariqoli Pamiri (or Sariqoli Tajik) language of Xinjiang (China). A key purpose of this write-up is to study the language from a practical context to see if Sariqoli could be preserved effectively within the framework of Anglicized or Latinate script…
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Anglicized Orthography for Wakhi Pamiri Language
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction Wakhi is one of the Pamiri languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages family. Although, its written tradition sounds very recent/young, the related linguists consider Wakhi as one of the old Eastern Iranian languages having over four thousand years of age so far. Indigenously, this language is never named…
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Anglicized Writing System for the S̃hina Language of the Northern Pakistan
Introduction Like Kh̃howar and Kashmiri, S̃hina is a Dardic language of the Indo-Iranian branches within the broader Indo-European languages family. It’s spoken mainly in the Northern Pakistan, although a sizeable number of speakers also live in North-western India and a small population of them also reportedly live in Eastern Afghanistan. It has been a lingua…
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Anglicized Orthography for Kh̃owar Language of the Northern Pakistan
Introduction Kh̃owar can bee termed as the Persian of the Northern Pakistan. It belongs to the Dardic group within Indo-Aryan languages family and is spoken by a significant number of people mainly in the districts of Chitral and Ghizer in addition to a significant number of the community in Gilgit as well as in a…
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Anglicized Written System for D̃umaaki Language of the Northern Pakistan
Introduction D̃umaaki [D̃umãki] is one of the most endangered languages of Pakistan which is spoken by a few thousands of people in Gilgit-Baltistan Region and more specifically in Hunza valley . Although, this language community lives in different valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan Region, they have lost their enriched mother tongue in the face of severe social…