Torwali An Account Of A Dardic Language of The Swat Kohistan

About the Book :-Torwal, where the Dardic tongue recorded in the stories dealt with by the author is spoken, comprises that alpine portion of the valley of the Swat River which extends from Kalam town to the large village of Churrai. It was visited by him as the first European in 1926. A descriptive account of the observation then made. Torwali is one of a number of languages generally grouped together under the name of ‘Kohistani’, as being spoken in the Panjkora, Swat, and Indus Kohistans lying to the north of the Peshwar and Hazara districts of British India. For convenience of reference, the writer has divided this work into four parts. Part I consists of Sir Aurel Stein’s note; Part II deals with the language; Part III consists of the Folktales and Typical Sentences; and Part IV of the Vocabulary and its connected indexes. About the Author:-Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Services but an interest in philology and linguistics led him to pursue studies in the languages and folklore of India during his postings in Bengal and Bihar. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned societies and wrote several books during his administrative career but proposed a formal linguistic survey at the Oriental Congress in 1886 at Vienna. The Congress recommended the idea to the British Government and he was appointed superintendent of the newly created Linguistic Survey of India in 1898. He continued the work until 1928, surveying people across the British Indian territory, documenting spoken languages, recording voices, written forms and was responsible in documenting information on 179 languages, defined by him through a test of mutual unintelligibility, and 544 dialects which he placed in five language families. He published the findings of the Linguistic Survey in a series that consisted of 19 volumes. The Title 'Torwali An Account Of A Dardic Language of The Swat Kohistan written/authored/edited by George A. Grierson', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121230810 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 229 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-