Promoting Yadgha Writing  

FLI supported Yadgha Development Network (YDN), one of its partner organizations from northern Pakistan to organize a writers’ workshop aiming to promote the writing of the language among Yadgha community. The event took place in Roi village of Lotkuh valley in Lower Chitral district and 15 young Yadgha speakers including students, poets and singers participated and learned how to write their native language. Alaudin Haideri and others who are trainees of FLI facilitated the event and helped the participants to express themselves in their own language. They oriented the participants to the unique sounds and alphabets of the language. They also helped the participants to install and use PC and Android Keyboards FLI has developed for them.

Yadgha, belonging to the Iranian group of languages, spoken in Chitral, and is facing a looming language shift due to not being transferred to the young generation was provided a writing system with PC and Android keyboard to strengthen it in 2016. Since then, FLI has been supporting various activities to enable the Yadgha speakers to avert the catastrophe of extinction of the language. FLI has been successful in finding and empowering the community researchers but still the language researchers and activists have to achieve a hard goal to save and promote their language.