Resources in Torwali

Links to sources on Torwali language, people and culture 

  1. World’s Indigenous Peoples Spotlight: Zubair Torwali tells us about the Torwali People and Language https://www.coalitionforlanguagerights.org/post/torwali-language
  2. Early Writing in Torwali: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351049672-3/early-writing-torwali-pakistan-zubair-torwali 
  3. Vestiges of Torwali culture: http://www.mahraka.com/torwali_culture/1.html 
  4.  The Torwali Multilingual Model: https://criterion-quarterly.com/mother-language-education-the-torwali-multilingual-education-model/ 
  5. Torwali-English Dictionary: https://www.webonary.org/torwali/en/overview/copyright/ 
  6. Documentary on Revitalization of Torwali language: https://mothertongue2022.eventive.org/films/62031d098c6409004c685800 
  7. IBT’s another website on Torwali in English, Urdu and Torwali: https://www.torwali.org/en/welcome 
  8. A website on Torwali language and people: https://torwali.omeka.net/ 
  9. Sarbuland available at Saeed Book Bank: http://saeedbookbank.com/prod.asp?bstslrid=99891 
  10. Reversing Language Loss through an Identity Based Educational Planning: The Case of Torwali language: https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3501/samples/10637 
  11. Torwali keyboard for smartphones: https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/torwali-language-and-its-new-android-keyboard/ 
  12.   Revitalization of Torwali folk music using media of translation, audio and video: https://www.neliti.com/publications/351572/revitalizing-torwali-folk-music-using-media-of-translation-audio-video 
  13. Torwali is a language: https://www.himalmag.com/torwali-is-a-language/ 
  14. Bahadar ’s Almanac: Oral Tradition in Northern Pakistan Makes People Resilient and Prepared for Natural Disasters: https://terralingua.org/langscape_articles/bahadar-s-almanac-oral-tradition-in-northern-pakistan-makes-people-resilient-and-prepared-for-natural-disasters/ 
  15. The Indigenous culture festival: https://tribune.com.pk/story/194056/celebrating-swat-kohistan%e2%80%99s-indigenous-culture 
  16.  Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Torwali   https://zaspil.leibniz-zas.de/article/download/583/571/1117
  17. Torwali alphabets: https://omniglot.com/writing/torwali.htm 
  18. Text, audio and video resources on and in Torwali: https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3501 
  19. Revitalization of Torwali poetry and music: https://wemountains.com/03/04/1143/ 
  20. On Torwali language, presentation by Aftab Ahmad: https://asiapacificmle-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/image/257C-compressed.pdf 
  21. Torwali in Ethnologue: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/trw 
  22. Torwali-English-Urdu dictionary online: https://livingdictionaries.app/torwali/about 
  23. Oral history in Torwali: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/1947-partition/catalog?f%5Bauthor_person_facet%5D%5B%5D=Torwali%2C+Zubair
  24. Fading songs of Torwali-Manjoora: https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2016/02/12/fading-songs-from-the-hills/ 
  25. The Torwali people and language: https://profilpelajar.com/article/Torwali_people 
  26. Grierson book on Torwali: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57562 

 

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