Planning for preservation of Bateri Language started

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 of the language so the future events will be based on. It was found out that lack of documentation of the language was creating challenges for those from the community who wanted to work for their language.

FLI has planned to hold documentation activities for Bateri language and soon the next activity will be conducted so that the measures to document the Bateri language could be accelerated and the community people be empowered and enabled to carry out the work.

Bateri, a Dardic language is spoken in Batera, which is in the southern region of the Kohistan district along the east bank of the Indus River. Community people say that there are 20,000 people in the area who speak the language as their mother tongue.

There are people from the Bateri language who have been participating in the enabling events FLI has, time to time been organizing but, the recent event was the dedicated event and specific to document the Bateri language. It’s hoped that more activities will be carried out for its preservation and promotion.