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What can an alternative classificatory system and nomenclature for language look like?

Representatives of about 20 indigenous peoples of mountainous regions discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies at the Conference of Indigenous Community in Bahrain Swat, Pakistan

All English – How about my Tongue? A child is born into lower and lower-middle class families where not all people know English language except two or three members. Despite this fact, the ones with no proficiency in English at all still…

“Some people just can’t seem to let go of colonization; they still continue to blame it for their living conditions even though they have had local governance for years.”

History of Sweets in Chitral The subcontinent has a long history of serving and offering sweets on different important occasions. It has been an erstwhile tradition of goodwill gesture to welcome visitor(s) with serving sweetener, and…

To free society from the clutches of draconian values and tribal mindset, it is indispensible to break the nexus of tribal chieftains, maliks, mullahs, mafia money and politicians.

Macaulay’s belief* that we “cannot at present be educated by means of mother-tongue”.

Lost Tajiks or the forgotten Dards of Pakistan? By Barmazid and Xazureh The subject of the history of Swat and areas of north-western Pakistan have rarely been given serious academic attention, in spite of representing a linguistically and…

Doing Subaltern Linguistics Prof Nomad Subaltern linguistics is work that empowers local ways of being, doing, and saying by encouraging and supporting local economies, practices, projects, and resources. This work can be done by anyone and…

In 2015 IBT undertook a Cultural Revitalization project wherein new songs were produced and sung in a modern way where the ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ have a fusion.