Thank you, Milos. Turkish Wikipedia is where my heart lies, so it is < https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vito_Genovese%3E. However, the text is mostly based on Kho-related enwiki articles. Proper attribution is indeed important, and if you wish, I might be able to identify the major contributors of these articles by doing some digging. Well, at least the authors of the relevant sections.
2017-02-26 18:18 GMT+03:00 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
Thank you, Vito! And, yes, inputs of this kind are definitely welcome!
I would also like that we have proper attribution for the posts. For example, to sign it as "Language committee (written by Vito [&...])". Vito, what's your preferred Wikimedia user page?
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Vito Genovese vitomedia@gmail.com wrote:
This is my first ever comment on this list, so namaste everyone!
I've taken the liberty of putting together a text about the Kho people.
It
is obviously a draft, and there is much room for improvement. I just hope that it serves as a starting point for Satdeep to create a better flowing final text for the blog. Here it is:
The Kho people (Khowar: کھو, meaning "people"), also known as Chitralis (چترالي), are a Dardic ethnic group located primarily in South Asia. They are the predominant ethnic group in the Chitral region of Pakistan. It is estimated that their current population is approximately 300,000 people, most of whom live in Pakistan, with a small population living in Afghanistan. They are mostly Sunni and Ismaili Muslims.
Kho culture is an ancient culture which places heavy emphasis on poetry, song, and dance. Folk singers, sitar and reed instrument players are respected members of the community. Kho people also have a great respect
for
law and order. Much of this can be attributed to Chitral being a stable kingdom for most of its history, where the rule of law and the will of
the
ruler came before tribal concepts such as revenge and isolationism. The festivities are mostly related to agriculture, which reveals the significance of agriculture for the Kho people.
Their language, Khowar, is a Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic branch. Alternate names include Arniya, Chitrali, Kashkari, Patu, and variants thereof. This SOV language is spoken by the Kho people in Chitral
district,
Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan (including the Yasin Valley,
Golaghmuli
Valley, Phandar Ishkoman and Gupis), and in parts of Upper Swat.
Speakers of
Khowar have also migrated heavily to Pakistan's major urban centres, including but not limited to Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi. Khowar is spoken as a second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza. Dialects include North Khowar, South Khowar, East Khowar, and Swat
Kwohar,
with the North Khowar considered as the high variety. Kho people use
Naskh
and Nastaliq variants of the Arabic script to write Khowar.
Best,
Vito
2017-02-26 15:55 GMT+03:00 Satdeep Gill satdeepgill@gmail.com:
Awesome! I would love to write for the wikimedia blog. And yes, we
should
promote languages on the blog.
I will do it the next few days.
Regards Satdeep Gill
From: Milos Rancic Sent: Sunday, February 26, 17:47 Subject: Re: [Langcom] Khowar Wikipedia analysis To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Satdeep Gill wrote: > I can surely prepare a paragraph about the Khowar people, language and > culture in
the
next two days. A couple of paragraphs, a legitimate blog post :) But
it's
not that hard: Wikipedia and Ethnologue could give you all necessary
data
and you should just arrange it: people, culture, language. We should
start
promoting languages on blog.wikimedia.org :) _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
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