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Khowar language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is spoken as a second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza. Khowar is clearly an Indo-European Language, as demonstrated by the following: The Norwegian Linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khowar_language   (685 words)

Towards a Sociolinguistic Profile of the Khowar Language Khowar is also spoken in western Gilgit Agency, in Yasin and in the Ghizar River Valley from the area of Gupis west to Shandur Pass, and in the Ushu Valley of Kalam (primarily in the village of Mathiltan) in Swat District of the N.W.F.P. (Stahl, 1988:40) (see Map 2 and 4). Khowar is an Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan (Indic) language of the Northern India, Dardic, Chitral sub-group (Morgenstierne, 1961:138-39; Emeneau, 1966; Strand, 1973:302; Voegelin and Voegelin, 1965, 1977:165; Ruhlen, 1987:325). Khowar's oral tradition is full of well-loved poems and songs, passed down from generation to generation and sung to the accompaniment of a variety of instruments--especially the 'sitar'. www.samsloan.com /munnings.htm   (9093 words)

Khowar English Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Khowar is spoken by approximately 250,000 native speakers in Chitral, which is in the far North West corner of Pakistan. Khowar is classed as an Indo-European language of the Dardic Group. Khowar is believed to be an old language, and is certainly much older than Farsi or Urdu. www.ishipress.com /khow-dic.htm   (569 words)

Khowar Khowar in Laspur, Chitral (Pakistan).” I. Stellrecht (ed.). Gurdon, B.E.M. Translation of Ganj-i-Pukhto in the Khowar Dialect by Khan Sahib Abdul Hakim Khan. O’Brien, D.J.T. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Khowar Dialect (Chitrali). www.southasiabibliography.de /Bibliography/Indo-European/Khowar/khowar.html   (463 words)

:: Khowar.com :: Representative of Chitral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) The primary language of Chitral is Khowar, which is the mother tongue of 90% of the population. Most of the remaining 10% speak Khowar as their second language. The languages of Khowar, Phalura, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Kalasha, Yidgha and Munji are all classified as Dardic languages in the Indo-European family of languages. www.khowar.com /abtkhowar.htm   (327 words)

Languages of Northern Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) In 1860, Khowar was a language, threatened by the predominant Dari, Shina and Pashto spoken on the borders of its geographical zone. A wise man would advise his fellows to abandon Khowar because they will not be able to converse with outer world in their native language; they thought it was impossible to be bilingual or to converse in more then two languages. Another impact of the interaction between linguists and language community is visible in the mainstream literary life of the country where Khowar was considered as negligible language in the early fifties, is now regarded as one of the important Pakistani languages. www.fli-online.org /faizi-article.htm   (3088 words)

Khowar, the Language of Chitral, Pakistan My Khowar English Dictionary was purchased by about 300 university libraries, so it can be found it in many places. I became semi-fluent in Khowar as a result of being married to a woman, whose name is Honzagool, who spoke only that language. He reported that Chitral, which has ten other languages spoken in addition to Khowar, is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. www.anusha.com /khowar.htm   (1145 words)

Khowar English Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Because there are 42 phonemes, it would be difficult to write Khowar in the Roman alphabet, which has only 26 letters. The Roman alphabet is still more suitable that the Urdu alphabet, but, nevertheless, for religious reasons, most efforts have been made to write Khowar in the Urdu alphabet, by adding dots to the bottoms of several Urdu letters. Due to the winding nature of the valleys in Chitral, there is no word for "north" or "south" in Khowar. www.ishipress.com /khow-lst.htm   (624 words)

The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles Their language, Khowar, is a member of the Indo-Aryan language family. Not enough is known about the Khowar to accurately place them in the caste system; thus, their particular lifestyle cannot be adequately described. The Khowar do not have any Christian resources available in their own language, and there are no missions agencies currently targeting them. www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/p_code5/706.html   (768 words)

speak your mothers language article submition submit your article aritcle by Gul Nawaz Khan Especially the parents who live in the cities should try to speak Khowar with their children beside Urdu and English. But if your mother tong is not Khowar and you talk to a Chitrali or Gharzik in Khowar he/she will feel hesitate to talk in Khowar, he/she will prefer to speak in Urdu. The reason why I am comparing Khowar with Brushaski is that Khowar is also a local language like Brushaski but Brushaski has got a worldwide recognition. www.ansari4u.com /info/article.htm   (753 words)

Ethnologue: Pakistan Speakers of Pashto, Gujari,k Khowar, and other Kohistani languages live among them, but they are generally in the majority. In the south Khowar or Kati are sometimes used in the home and within the group. Khowar is the main second language used, although with much Yidgha language influence, and proficiency among women is limited. www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Pakn.html   (4028 words)

Living Islam - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) It was the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan-based Islamist political parties and their activists, and Chitral-folk who had themselves adopted strict interpretations of Islamic thought and practice, and were often referred to as the ‘bearded ones’ (rigishweni), who were the focus of many of these discussions. My friends also sent long letters written in English, and sometimes Khowar, telling me of the goings-on in Chitral, and, after the introduction of a relatively reliable source of electricity to the region in 2001, we chatted on the World Wide Web and established email contact. Rowshan people’s deep knowledge of Islamic doctrine and respect for Islamic practice convinced me that the wide spectrum of opinion and ways of being Muslim that I encountered in Rowshan were certainly not a result of some people in the village being ignorant of normative Islam or current Islamising trends. www.cup.cam.ac.uk /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521617650&ss=exc   (3275 words)

GoRustic.com - Khowar Language Lesson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Khowar is the language spoken by the people of Chitral District in Pakistan's North West Frontier Provence. It is an ancient language of the Indo-Iranian family and in its modern manifestation includes many vocabulary words taken from Persian and Arabic. This language lesson was given to me by vaious member of an Ismaili family in northern Chitral district. www.gorustic.com /khowar.htm   (58 words)

VTrain (Vocabulary Trainer) --- Education Database Khowar is the medium of instruction at primary schools, although Urdu, English, or Arabic are required at higher levels. Until 1952, Persian was the written language of the government of monarchy-ruled Chitral. In comparison to other Indo-Aryan languages, Khowar is archaic in its inflection, and it includes a complete series of retroflex consonants. www.paul-raedle.de /vtrain/db-khowar-info.htm   (125 words)

Iranica.com - DARDESTAÚN Alhough Dardic languages were occasionally mentioned in travelers' notes and Christian missionaries actually published parts of the Bible in Kashmiri (in the Nagari alphabet) in the 1820s, the study of Dardic languages actually began in the 1830s, when the first professional linguistic data, in the form of compact vocabularies and glossaries, were published by M. In the Iranian languages of the Pamirs the term for the local style of kerchief is probably a similar borrowing with relatively early phonetic transformations: Shughni-Bajuwi ce@l, Rushani-Khufi, Roshorvi c^l, Yazghulami cil (possibly from Rushani), Wakhi ±il. In pronominal inflection the remarkable convergence in the forms of the first-person plural pronouns Khowar ispa (direct and oblique cases), Wakhi spo (genitive) and the influence of the second-person singular pronoun on the second-person plural (e.g., Phalura sing. www.iranica.com /articles/v7f1/v7f126.html   (3225 words)

LINGUIST List 9.11: Kalasha-Khowar-Nuristani Word List Kalasha is spoken by the so-called "Black Kafirs" who live in the valleys of Bumboret, Birir and Rumbur in Chitral, Northwest Pakistan. Kalasha is classified as being closely related to Khowar but, as this word list demonstrates, they are far apart and only distantly related. The purpose for inclusion is simply to demonstrate that Kalasha, Khowar and Nuristani are not related to Urdu or Pashtu. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/9/9-11.html   (501 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) It is spoken by more than 400,000 people in Chitral, Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighboring Gilgit, and in parts of Upper Swat. Khowar has also been influenced by Iranic languages to a great extent than other Dardic languages. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are also spoken here. www.chitralnews.com /LT14.htm   (486 words)

Kalash People's Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Khowar is the language of the Kalash tribe, spoken in Chitral, which is in the far Northwest corner of Pakistan; a beautiful valley in the Hindukush range of Mountains. Khowar is classified as an Indo-European language of the Dardic Group. However, only Kalashamun is closely related to Khowar. www.indigenouspeople.net /chitral.htm   (1107 words)

SALC Faculty: Bashir Published work on Balochi, Balti, Brahui, Burushaski, Shina, Kalasha, Khowar, Pashto, Urdu, Wakhi. 2001: "Spatial Representation in Khowar." In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 1988-a: "Inferentiality in Kalasha and Khowar." In: Proceedings of the 24th Regional Meeting (CSL 24). salc.uchicago.edu /facultybios/bashir.html   (295 words)

khowar - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com khowar - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com Khowar - a Dardic language spoken in northwestern Pakistan Dard, Dardic, Dardic language - any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan www.onpedia.com /dictionary/khowar   (38 words)

Tameez Ahmad letter about Chitral Would you mind telling me where do you live in USA, I means how much far away from New York. I am not at all fluent in Khowar. I am also especially interested in finding more examples of the CHH retroflex type of sounds which exist only in Khowar and nowhere else. www.samsloan.com /tameez.htm   (551 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Indo-Iranian pt. 4 Languages on this page so far are Dardic Languages, Gaddi, Garhwali, Indic Languages (Branch), Kalasha, Khowar, and Shina. Numerous languages comprise this sub-branch, including Assamese, Bengali, Bhili, Bihari, Chattisgarhi, Dardic (which includes Kashmiri, Khowar, Kohistani, Romany -- the language of the Gypsies, and Shina), Gujarati, Hindi, Lahnda, Maldivian, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Rajasthani, Sinhalese, Sindhi, Urdu, and the Old Indic languages of Sanskrit and Vedic, as well as many minor languages. updated 8-6-2003 Khowar (Indo-Hittite) belongs to the Dardic group of languages under the Indic sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family of languages. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/indirn4h.htm   (526 words)

Koshur: An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Kashmiri, popularly known as Koshur, is an Indo-Aryan language. Even the opponents of this linguistic classification of this language, grouped it with Dardi, Shrinya, Khowar dialects, which are spoken in the areas adjacent to the valley in its north and north-west. Language historians and linguists have often, however, concurred on the theory that the above-mentioned dialects fall in the category of languages that bear resemblance to the Indo-Aryan as well as to the Indo-Iranian languages. www.koshur.org   (252 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Guldasta-e-Rahmat (Khowar Book) Published by M/s.Khowar Academy, Ministry of Education Govt of Pakistan purchased 500 copies of the above-mentioned book and awarded the author royalty of the best book in 1996 I can read, write and speak Khowar, Urdu, English, Chitrali, Qashqari, Lutkuhwar, Torkhowaychiwar, Pashto, and Kalasha. I assure you sir that if a chance is given me to serve your organization, I shall do my duties to the satisfaction of my superiors. www.1-language.com /jobcenter/bbs0/232   (272 words)

[No title] Reference > Dictionaries > World Languages > Khowar Khowar is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 250, 000 native speakers in Chitral, which is in the far North West corner of Pakistan. Directory listings and categorizations are provided by the Open Directory Project with user enhancements and proprietary search functions developed by Juvio Corporation. www.juvio.com /search/directory.asp?c=106   (74 words)

Definition of Khowar - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Etymology: Khowar khowàr, from khów, people and area of Chitral, Pakistan For More Information on "Khowar" go to Britannica.com Get the Top 10 Search Results for "Khowar" www.m-w.com /dictionary/Khowar   (53 words)

Mirago : Reference: Dictionaries: World Languages: K: Khowar Mirago : Reference: Dictionaries: World Languages: K: Khowar Khowar English Dictionary - by Mohammad Ismail Sloan. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Reference/Dictionaries/World_Languages/K/Khowar   (76 words)

AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory Click here to see the Top 100 Hot Books from Amazon.com Directory Reference / Dictionaries / World Languages / K / Khowar The Open Directory is a listing of links and sites recommended by Internet users. www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Reference/Dictionaries/World_Languages/K/Khowar   (156 words)

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