TY - JOUR AU - Torwali, Zubair PY - 2020/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Torwali JF - ZAS Papers in Linguistics JA - Zaspil VL - 64 IS - SE - Artikel DO - 10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.583 UR - https://zaspil.leibniz-zas.de/article/view/583 SP - 241-248 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>Torwali, a Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan family spoken in the District Swat in Pakistan, is an endangered language that lacks a literary tradition. This paper gives a background on the Torwali language and people, and describes the development of an orthography for Torwali and the establishment of Torwali-medium schools by the local organization Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi ‘institute for education and development’ (IBT). Finally, the process of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instruments for Narratives (MAIN) to Torwali is outlined.</p></div></div></div> ER -