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International Mother Languages Day 2023 Events
Pakistan Mother Languages and Literature Festival 17-19 Feb Islamabad IBT collaborated with the Indus Cultural Forum and other partners in holding this festival on Pakistan’s lesser known languages in Islamabad, Pakistan. Two sessions were organized on Mother Tongue Education known as MTB-MLE.
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Language of North Pakistan
Linguistic tapestry North Pakistan As we shall see below today’s North Pakistan is the larger part of a linguistically diverse region at the crossroad between South and Central Asia. Before going to specifically describe the languages of North Pakistan it is necessary to have a brief introduction of Dardistan and the Dardic people. Dardistan Dardistan…
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Mamera 1—Torwali book for grade 1
Mamera is the name of this book of Torwali taught in grade 1 at the Torwali Multilingual Education Schools. Mamera is a name of a highland flower that grows in early spring with the snow receding in the highland pastures. This book was printed in 2018 by IBT with the financial support of FLI.
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State of Education in Swat-Kohistan—a research report
This report is developed by IBT based on its research in the project ‘campaign for education in Swat-Kohistan’. It was written by Zubair Torwali in 2015. It includes the state of education in the six backward union councils of tehsil Bahrain in the Swat district. Its Urdu version is also available. Below are the links…
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Leegu Si Qaeda—Writing Primer
It is a writing primer to teach and learn how to write basic Torwali. It is also shape based and finally goes to drills in writing the Torwali alphabets. It was also first developed and printed in 2008 by IBT and is used at the Torwali multilingual education schools.
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Shakal Pianu Si Kitaab grade 1
It is a book aimed at teaching the mathematical shapes as well as learning letters/alphabets from shapes. It is written in a way that goes from very concrete objects to abstract concepts which end with learning the alphabets of Torwali. It was first prepared and printed in 2008 by IBT.
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