Our Success Stories

  • Enhanced awareness among indigenous communities regarding the importance of mother tongues.
  • Built the capacity of government and private school teachers in teaching newly introduced mother tongue subjects in KP provinces.
  • Motivated 23 communities to establish Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to provide an organized platform for language development work within their communities.
  • Developed 11 PC and 15 Android keyboards for indigenous language communities, enhancing the usage of mother tongues in digital devices, especially in social media.
  • Contributed to the recognition of indigenous languages at the institutional level, including universities, to support language documentation work and their inclusion in courses.
  • Resolved inconsistencies in textbooks developed by the KP government for Pashto, Hindko, Saraiki, and Khowar by building the capacity of book reviewers.
  • Assisted 11 indigenous language communities in resolving their orthography issues and developed new orthographies for 07 languages of northern Pakistan.
  • Trained hundreds of people in language documentation from 26 ethnolinguistic communities of northern Pakistan.
  • Published and supported in publishing 72 books in and about the 17 indigenous languages and cultures of northern Pakistan.
  • Supported the initiation of a mother tongue-based preschool educational program in six ethnolinguistic communities.
  • Connected local researchers from target communities to collaborate on their native languages through workshops, seminars, and conferences.
  • Raised awareness among 15 target indigenous language community members regarding protection from COVID-19 by disseminating messages in their mother tongues.
  • Partnered in organizing two international academic conferences on indigenous languages.

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