Inaan II: second book of the Torwali classic poetry, Zo couplets
This was published by IBT in 2021. Over 350 classic Zo couplets were collected by Javed Iqbal Torwali and translated into Urdu by Zubair Torwali.
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Vestiges of Torwali Culture
It is a small book containing paper on the vestiges of Torwali culture, research carried out by Zubair Torwali for his diploma in linguistics and cultures in 2005-6. It was published by IBT in 2014. It is based on the changes in the Torwali cultures over the last 60 years.
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Inaan—A book of classic Torwali poetry translated into Urdu
It is now known as Inaan 1 because it is the first book of Torwali classic poetry containing ʐo ڙو which is very specific to Torwali. This book contains more than 300 Torwali Zo couplets and are translated into Urdu. The poetry was collected by Zubair Torwali and is translated by Noor Khan. It was published in 2012…
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Torwali Qaeda—Torwali Primer
This was prepared by a team led by Zubair Torwali in 2007 and was first published in 2008 by IBT. It is primer where basic writing and reading of Torwali is taught. It is now taught at grade KG 2 and grade 1 at the mother tongue based multilingual education school by IBT.
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Torwali Alif Be Te—Torwali Alphabet book
This was the first book published by IBT in 2007. It was written by Zubair Torwali. It has Torwali alphabets each with head word and three other words where that particular alphabet is used word initially, word medially and word final.
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Torwali-Urdu-Angrezi Bol Chal
This is a book for common daily use conversation with Torwali as the main language and Urdu and English added as translation languages. It was written by Mujahid Torwali and was published in 2015 by IBT under its project “Preservation and Promotion of Torwali Language and Culture
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Torwali Folktales—Kookoo Bacha
This book containing 15 Torwali folktales was published in 2015 by IBT under its project “Preservation and Promotion of Torwali Language and Culture”. The folktales were collected, edited and translated in Urdu and English by Rahim Sabir.
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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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