Experts discuss preservation of Yidgha language
Community leaders, teachers, professionals and students participated in the five-day-long workshop. After the five days’ of intensive brainstorming, group work and discussion with speakers and participants including the language experts outlined Yidgha alphabets, vowels, consonants, compound words, nouns and verbs.
A complete report on the workshop will be presented to the Yidgha Language Committee during the next meeting. The organizers thanked all the partner organizations and the participants, especially USAID for the funding, in order to preserve the vanishing language of the area.
Those who spoke on the occasion included Mr Nasim from the FLI, Mr. Farid Ahmed Raza, FLI, Mr. Dost Mohammad Khan, Principal GHS and PPC College and Mr. Bahauddin, teacher GHS.
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Dear Babar, we appreciate your efforts to help in the language preservation process. We can meet any time convenient for you. In the coming days I will be visiting QAU.
Culture is one of the important component of our life. As Chitral has got its own unique culture though different dialects are also spoken in Chitral. Yadgha language has prime importance and needed to be preserve and also it is intense need to preserve other cultural activities which are vanishing from our society. We are thankful to the organizations working for exploring old traditions of the area.
Special attention is needed to preserve the culture of border areas as well as whole Chitral area. Chitral culture is the only source of integrity and peace in the area.
Good initiative. According to the UNESCO I think Yidgha and Kalasha language is considered extinction languages among the languages which are spoken in Chitral. So there is intense need to preserve such type of languages so that we can preserve of our culture. Thus it is the prime responsibility of local writers, researcher and professional people to documents the threatened language. And those who are working to preserve the ingenious languages, we really appreciate their efforts. Being a student of Anthropology, I have done my MSc thesis on Khowar language and it will be available in the library of Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. I hope, if I got admission in MPhil I will conduct my research on Yidgha language, InshaAllah.