Thank you, Milos. Turkish Wikipedia is where my heart lies, so it is <
gt;. 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(a)gmail.com>om>:
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(a)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(a)gmail.com>om>:
>
> 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 :)
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