The Dards, Dardistan and its Linguistic Diversity

Zubair Torwali

Zubair Torwali Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) i.e Institute for education and development

Keywords: Dardistan

Abstract

The paper traces the brief history of the geo-cultural region known in academia as Dardistan, a brief note on the history of the inhabitants of Dardistan, the Dards and the linguistic diversity this region with a major focus on North Pakistan. After the history of Dardistan, the Dards a brief note on each of the languages is given along with three words in of each language transliterated in International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA) and translated into English.

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