Our Languages-Our Identity Languages are Socially Determined Phenomena-the Case of Wakhi Language (original) (raw)

I presented this paper in the "Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival' held on February 20-21, 2016 at Lok Virsa, Islamabad. Primarily I represented "Wakhi Language of Wakhan Corridor, also spoken in Upper Hunza (Gojal), Upper Ishkoman Valley; Burughil valley of district Chitral; (Pakistan); Toshqughan Tajik Autonomous Area and Tajik Milizeh of Zinjiang Province of China. This is one several endangered languages spoken in and around PAMIRs as a result of growing external communication networks, electronic media, ever increasing tourists and increasing number of youth from these areas to other parts of the globe.