Islamabad: The first ever workshop on the indigenous languages of Pakistan took place on Oct 16. The main aim of this workshop was to provide a platform to national and international researchers working on the endangered, minority, and indigenous languages of Pakistan. The National Science Foundation, USA provided fund for the workshop which was attended […]
FLI held its first intervention for preservation and promotion of Bateri language last week. Four people from the community participated in the six day activity. The main objective of the activity was to develop a plan for how to preserve and promote the language and also to discover the main vulnerabilities in terms of use […]
The main aim of this workshop is to provide a platform to national and international researchers working on the endangered, minority, and indigenous languages of Pakistan. The known linguist, Mr. Henrik Liljegren who has worked on languages spoken in Chitral will be speaking about ‘Languages and Geography in Northern Pakistan; Areal Typology made Practical’. Other […]
The Wakhi language community of Boroghil valley in Upper Chitral held a literary program, the first ever of its kind in the area. The event was attended by the young and senior poets, writers and singers of the Wakhi community. The event was followed by a musical night. More than 50 people from the community […]
FLI started the standardization work for the languages spoken in its target area (Northern Pakistan) with initiation of steps to standardize the spelling system of Khowar language. The three-day workshop, jointly held with the Mother tongue Initiative for Education and Research (MIER) and the Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Khowar (ATK) took off in Chitral town today taking up […]
FLI took up the 22nd language, Kalkoti, to work on, by initiating the developing steps first with identifying the issues the language is facing. The three day long intervention, called Issues in Language Development (ILD) workshop just concluded in Kalkot area of Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In total, 13 people from the community […]
The Indus Kohistani (IK) language in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa finds four more activists from the community who are zealous to strengthen its literacy segment. The young activists, who attended FLI’s ‘Planning for the Future of my Language’ program developed plan to maximize the use of their language for reading and writing. This program was organized in […]
FLI held a five day activity to support the writing system development in Shekhani language in Chitral last week. Average 12 people who represented more than three dialects of the language participated in the event. The participants reached a consensus for developing spelling guide, rules, characters etc. to introduce a standardized writing system for the […]
Authored by its trainees, FLI published three new books in Shina, Palula and Indus Kohistani languages. The book in Shina language is a set of folktales and folksongs of Shina language collected and produced by FLI’s trainee, Amir Haider. While the books in Palula and Indus Kohistani were authored by Naseem Haider and Gul Muhammad […]
Are you interested to know what we achieved last year despite having had the challenge of the pandemic? If you are, please go through our annual newsletter 2020. FLI’s annual newsletter comes out today, the February 26. Interestingly, this was the day sharply one year back when first Pakistani tested positive followed by a chaotic […]