Dying Shina language finds a saviour, after all (fwd link)

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Dying Shina language finds a saviour, after all

A Gilgit university steps in to help preserve the widely spoken language

Shabbir Mir
India

Gilgit, Sep 06: The Karakorum International University (KIU) has stepped in to
rescue Gilgit-Baltistan’s major dialect - Shina - from extinction.

Shina, the dominant language being spoken by approximately 60 percent people of
this region, and also spoken in parts of Indian Kashmir, is facing danger of
extinction because of lack of patronage by the government and the civil
society’s insufficient contribution in the erstwhile Northern Areas, where a
package of political reforms unveiled recently by the Prime Minister upgraded
its status and made it equivalent to that of a province.

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