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 […]
Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Dr. Yousuf Khushk paid a visit to FLI today to witness a language documentation training and spent more than two hours at its office. He also met with the Gawarbati language researchers who are currently participating in a workshop at the office. Earlier, the Executive Director of FLI […]
Three Gawarbati language researchers have started their training in Islamabad. The purpose of the workshop is to help the participants enhance their skills in language documentation. The training is being supervised by the head of Linguistics Department of University of Stockholm, Sweden, Associate Professor Dr. Henrik Liljegren and facilitated by Mr. Fazal Hadi, the Research […]
The culture and language admirers of Gilgit Baltistan (GB) got together for a policy dialogue in Gilgit city last week. More than two dozen people including writers, authors, and poets of five major indigenous language communities as well as people from relevant government bodies, civil society, media and academia participated in the discussion and pledged […]
‘‘We may offer a doctoral program in Language Documentation focusing on lesser known languages spoken in nooks and corners of the country, and I would consider such proposal if submitted while collaborating with FLI”, this was said by the chair of Linguistic Department in Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Mr. Malik Ajmal Gulzar. The initiative […]
Fourth day of a language documentation workshop, FLI has organized exclusive for university faculties and students is underway in Islamabad in collaboration with University of North Texas (UNT), US and Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad. Twenty eight people including faculty members and students from various universities, mostly from North Pakistan are attending the workshop which […]
“FLI has emerged as a heritage savior, and an organization which believes in practical work, not just with the rhetoric”, this was said by Mr. Maisum Kazim, the tourism minister of Gilgit Baltistan (GB). He said that the protection and promotion of cultural heritage would strengthen our cultural diversity leading to promoting tourism and widening […]
Three Kataviri, also called Kati language researchers, who will be carrying out a documentation project for their language attended a three day training last week. The purpose of the training was to enhance the capacity of the researchers in the use of computer and resolve computer related issues so that they could work smoothly in […]