3-Day National Workshop on Pashto Dialects

Pashto is the language of millions of Pakhtoons that speak a variety of dialects; each unique in its own respect. The Pashto Academy, University of Peshawar is the only research center of Pashto Language where there is ongoing research on Pashtun Culture, Literature and History, and Rohology. The subject workshop is going to be arranged for the students of Pashto Academy who are the Part of the project "Support to Pashto Academy” for the research on the dialects of Pashto Language.

The director of the academy is pleased to invite you in this workshop through proper registration. Individuals and institutions who are interested to participate in the said workshop may register their students for the workshop where there are lectures on linguistics and dialects of Pashto Language. You may register yourselves through proper form that will be available in the academy.

Contents

Descriptive Analysis of Language and Dialect

• Language and dialects
• Attributes of a Human Language
• What is a dialect?
• Dialects in Pashto
• Studies on Pashto dialects
• Phonetics & Phonology
• Pashto Phonetics & Phonology
• Pashto Consonants
• Pashto Vowels
• Pashto Diphthongs

Explorative analysis of Linguistic and Data collection

• Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• Field work in Computational Linguistics
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis

Speakers

• Dr. Omar Usman Khan
  PhD (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
  Assoc. Prof. FAST-National University, Peshawar
• Dr. Muhammad Kamal Khan
  PhD (AJK University, Muzaffarabad, AJK)
  Asst. Prof./HoD Dept. of English,
  Director SBBU, Sheringal, Upper Dir
• Dr. Yousaf Khan
  PhD (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
  Post-Graduate College Bannu

Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm PST

Local Participant: Rs. 3,000/-

Institutional Participants: Rs. 50,000/-
(covers up to 25 participants)

Note:

• Resource material (soft copy through email)
• All participants will be awarded with certificates.
• No TA & DA will be granted to trainees.

Who should attend?

• Faculty members
• Research scholars (M.Phil/PhD)
• Research associates
• Students of literature
• Students of linguistics