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Torwali-Urdu-English Dictionary

This is a trilingual dictionary published by IBT in 2015 under the project ‘Preservation and Promotion of Torwali Language and Culture’. The dictionary was complied by Aftab Ahmad in a year after having more than 20 workshops in the Torwali community. This was the first trilingual dictionary based on Torwali. Now work on its online…

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Torwali music and poetry

Music is a cultural construct, and culture refers to a set of behaviours, beliefs, social structures, and technologies of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. It includes social conventions related to art, dress, manner, religion, morality, ritual, dance and music. Alan Merriam (1964) describes three aspects to music:  sound, behaviour, and…

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Torwali Language

A Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan family, Torwali is spoken in the Bahrain and Chail areas of District Swat in Northern Pakistan. According to some estimates the Torwali people count themselves more than 120,0001 while recent research counts the number of speakers of the Torwali language around 130,0002. ‘Possibly half of them live in the…

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