Khowar is a Dardic language spoken by Kho people.The language is known by many other names such as Arniya, Chitrali, Kashkari, Patu. 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. 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.
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.
First efforts to build a Wikipedia in Khowar language started in 2010. User:Rachitrali also known as Rehmat Aziz Chitrali has been contributing to the project since then. Other Khowar speakers joined him and the incubator project consistently grew in the first 6 months of 2013. The community has now been consistently contributing since October 2014. Rachitrali (5601 edits), Mirajbibi (3138 edits) and Zaheeruddin25 (2956 edits) have been the top contributors. Besides them there are 19 more editors who made 100 or more contributions to the project.
2017-02-26 16:08 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>: I haven't checked very thoroughly, but it looks that the current content in the incubator is quite messy - there are a lot of ultra-short atticles about numbers, some pages in English, and some other problems. Do the authors pack to clean that up? I'd be happier of they started this cleanup right now, before approval, domain creation, and import.Incubator admin StevenJ81 conveyed this your comment to <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Community_ >. It seems like they are now trying to fix it. I will wait to create a bug report until that is solved.Portal#Thanks_.28Wp.2Fkhw.29
בתאריך 26 בפבר׳ 2017 01:35 PM, "Milos Rancic" <millosh@gmail.com> כתב:So, it's been approved after the first expert confirmed that the
written material is indeed in particular language. Do you want to
proceed with the approval process? (I've marked it as approved on the
page Requests for new languages.)
Also, may you prepare a couple of paragraphs about Khowar people,
language and culture for the time when the wiki would be created to be
sent on wikimedia-l and on blog.wikimedia.org?
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Satdeep Gill <satdeepgill@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another linguist has confirmed that the language is indeed khowar. Hence i
> propose the creation of this project.
>
> Regards
> Satdeep Gill
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Henrik Liljegren <henrik@ling.su.se>
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 1:24:15 PM
> To: Satdeep Gill
> Subject: RE: Khowar Wikipedia analysis
>
>
> Hi Satdeep,
>
> It is indeed Khowar that is written in the sample page.
>
> Best,
>
> Henrik
>
>
>
> From: Satdeep Gill [mailto:satdeepgill@gmail.com]
> Sent: 11 February 2017 02:39
> To: Henrik Liljegren <henrik@ling.su.se>
> Subject: Khowar Wikipedia analysis
>
>
>
> Hi Henrik,
>
> Khowar Wikipedians have been trying to build a Wikipedia in Khowar langauge.
> The project, as of now, is at Incubator. Can you confirm if the language
> written in actually Khowar or something else ?
>
> Here is a list to all the pages in this project:
>
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/ khw/
>
>
> Or just have a look at this random page:
>
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/khw/الطاف_حسین_حالی
>
> Hoping to hear soon from you. This will help people speaking Khowar to have
> a separate Wikipedia project.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Satdeep Gill
>
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