“The teacher was furious at me when she saw me last time using my mother tongue to converse with my son. Since then, I communicate with my elder son in English and Urdu, and with the younger one in Pashto as he is yet to start going to school”. This was shared by Tariq Ullah […]
Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI) in collaboration with International Islamic University, Islamabad arranged a two day-long workshop for the faculty members and research scholars of the Linguistic Department for strengthening their skills in advanced linguistics research and language documentation. The participants were introduced to new tools, techniques, and technology used in field linguistic and language […]
A maiden poetry session specifically in the Shina language, held in Gilgit city in Gilgit-Baltistan has motivated poets of the language to exercise their mother tongue for the lyrical genre. The participants left the venue with the hope and excitement of having laid the foundation of a new era, the beginning of a tradition of […]
A good news for those interested authors who were unable to submit their abstracts within the timeline, who now can be part of the event as the organizing committee of the 4th International Hindukush Cultural Conference has extended the deadline for abstracts submission up to May 31, 2022. Earlier, the set deadline was mid-May and many interested […]
The 4th International Hindukush Cultural Conference (IHCC4) has been rescheduled for September 14-16, 2022 to be organized in Chitral. The organizers of the mega event announced that new abstracts were recalled and previous submissions were also being refreshed by contacting the authors whose abstracts were approved against the previous call by May 15, 2022. Now, […]
FLI partnered with the Gojri Language & Culture Society (GLCS) to organize a literary event in Ghizer district of Gilgit Baltistan (GB) last weekend. This was first of its kind when Gojri speakers joined together to hold a poetry session in this part of the country. More than a dozen poets of Gojri language participated […]
FLI joined hands with one of its partner organizations in organizing a literary congregation in Gawarbati language. Organized by Al-Qalam, a community based organization, the poetry session took place last week in Arandu Valley of Chitral. The purpose of holding the event in the community was to promote Gawarbati poetry and contribute to peace building […]
In a historic event, the Dameli language community members, living in Peshawar laid the foundation of a tradition to celebrating their culture out of their original valley, Damel in Chitral. Ajuma-e-Taraqqi Damyan (ATD), one of FLI’s partner organizations working for the preservation and promotion of Dameli language held “Jashan-e-Daman” a first ever cultural event last […]
FLI facilitated the migrant members of Burushaski language community, living in Karachi to come together and celebrate their cultural event, Guren Usay. Guren Usay is roughly translated in English as ‘Take Care’. The event took place at the Arts Council of the metropolitan city which provided the community members an opportunity to revive their cultural […]
Forum for Language Initiative (FLI) has published another book on the Shina language. The book is co-authored by two famous writers, Amin Zia and Razwal Kohistan, of the language. The book compares 4000 nouns and verbs of the two famous dialects, Shina-Gilgiti and Shina-Kohistani, with the definition in Urdu. Some of the words also have […]