Resources for the Study of
Balochi
(with Saraiki, Sindhi, and
Miscellaneous)
Compiled by Maggie Ronkin,
Georgetown University
ronkinm@georgetown.edu
Sources
Most of this resource list
was generously contributed by Dr. Elena Bashir of the University of
Chicago.
ebashir@uchicago.edu
A=Center for Applied
Linguistics
http://www.cal.org
B=Goshti Website
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/goshti/bibliography.htm
C=Summer Institute of
Linguistics Ethnologue
http://www.ethnologue.com; also Summer Institute of
Linguistics Books available from
academic_books@sil.org
D=Dunwoody Press
Instructional Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages, Spoken Language
Library
http://www.dunwoodypress.com
E=International Language
Center
http://www.foreignmedia.com/ild-mail.html
F=Vyakaran (South Asian
Linguists’ Listserv) Bibliography for Seldom Studied and Endangered Languages
compiled by John Peterson, University of Osnabruck,
Germany
http://www.southasoabibliography.de/index.html.
Pedagogical
Materials
Ahmad, Mumtaz. 1985. Baluchi
Glossary: A Baluchi-English Glossary: Elementary Level. Dunwoody
Press.
A pedagogic work for
beginning learners of Balochi. Part of the Dunwoody series of readers in
uncommonly taught languages. May represent Balochi of Pakistan, concentrating on
core vocabulary that is probably common to most written dialects found in
Pakistan.
Barker, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman and Aqil Khan Mengal. 1969/1980. A Course
in Baluchi. Montreal: Institute of
Islamic Studies, McGill University.
Parallel in format to Barker’s three-volume introductory Urdu course,
these materials were developed with A. K. Mengal at the University of
Balochistan. Volume II contains 197
pages of Balochi-English vocabulary, coordinated with the grammar materials and
texts. Pages 604-660 are an
English-Balochi index. This
reflects Balochi usage in Pakistan current in the late 1960s, which is likely to
be closest to standard literary usage in Pakistan.
Bashir, Elena.
1991. A Contrastive Analysis of Balochi and Urdu. Peshawar, Pakistan: Directorate of Primary Education;
Washington, D.C.: Academy for Educational Development.
Collett, Major N. A. date?.
A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi (as spoken in the Sultanate of
Oman).
[Speakers living in Oman originated in the Kech and Makran area,
according to the author.] Thirty-three pages of Balochi-English vocabulary and a
reverse English-Balochi index.
Dames, M. Longworth. 1880? A Sketch of the Northern Balochi Language,
Containing a Grammar, Vocabulary and Specimens of the Language. Extra number to JAS (Bengal), Part 1 for
1880.
An important vocabulary of
the northern Balochi dialects of the area now in Pakistan. Contains ninety-three
pages of vocabulary items.
Dames, M. Longworth. 1922. A
Textbook of the Balochi Language, Consisting of Miscellaneous Stories, Legends,
Poems, and Balochi-English Vocabulary.
Lahore: Printed by the
Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab.
A collection of prose and
poetry and 108 pages of vocabulary. Texts represent two main dialects: northern
tribes including Legharis, and southern tribes including Mazaris. Dialects to
which each texts belong are indicated.Vocabulary items are those considered
useful in a textbook for British civil servants; they represent the Balochi
spoken in the area now in Pakistan in the early twentieth century. Transcription
and orthography is the author’s. Possible overlap with Dames
1880?.
Elfenbein, J. H. date?. A Vocabulary of Marw
Baluchi.
Compiled from a collection
of texts by Soviet scholars from Marw (according to Elfenbein, located in
Russian Turkmenistan). A scholarly work.
Farrell, Timothy. 1990.
Basic Balochi: An Introductory Course. Balochistan Monograph Series, 1. Naples:
Instituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi
Asiatici.
An introductory course on
Southern Balochi.
Source=C
Gilbertson, George W. 1925.
English-Balochi Colloquial Dictionary. Hertford, England: published by the
author, printed by Stephen Austin & Sons, Ltd.
Over 600 pages in two
volumes. Arranged by English key word entries, many of which are parts of set or
idiomatic phrases in English. Entries are illustrated with full sentences in
Balochi and include cross-references to sections in Gilbertson’s 1923 grammar,
The Balochi Language.
Nawata, Tetsuo. 1981. Balochi. Asian and African Grammatical Manual, No.
17b. Tokyo: Institute for the Study
of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
Pedagogical Materials from
the Goshti Website
All
Source=B
Baloch, M. B., Baloch, A.
R., and Farrell T., 1990. Miiraas (“Inheritance”-A Children’s Story Book in
Balochi.) Karachi: Kalakot Coaching Centre.
Baloch, M. B., Baloch, A.
R., and Farrell T., 1990. Jaan Mohammad, Anwar o Har (“Jan Mohammad, Anwar and
the Donkey”-A Children’s Story Book in Balochi.) Karachi: Kalakot Coaching
Centre.
Baloch, M. B., Baloch, A.
R., and Farrell T., 1990. Makisk mae Dushman (“Flies our Enemies” -A
Health/Story Book in Balochi.) Karacki: Kalakot Coaching
Centre.
Baloch, M. B., Baloch, A.
R., and Farrell T., 1991. Sheikh Callii o Roghin (“Sheikh Challi and the Ghee”-A
Children’s Story Book in Balochi.) Karachi: Kalakot Coaching
Centre.
Baloch, M. B., Baloch, A.
R., and Farrell T., 1993. Laap Ricage Biimaarii (A Health Book on Diarrhoea in
Balochi.) Karachi: Kalakot Coaching Centre.
Barakzai, Akbar. 1963. Zahg
Balad. Partially reprinted in 1987 by Baloch Itahad,
Kuwait.
Gul Rang Lal Mohd and
Yasmin. 1995a Petap. Karachi: Azat Jamaldini Academy.
Gul Rang Lal Mohd and
Yasmin. 1995b Buni Kitab. Karachi: Azat Jamaldini Academy.
Meyar, Ghulam Mahi Uddin.
1986. Siken. Karachi: Sharp Kitab Jah.
Nadwi, Khair Mohammad. 1951.
Balochi Qaidah. Karachi: Maktabah Saughat.
Nadwi, Khair Mohammad. 1978.
Balochie Awli Kitab. Karachi: Maktabah Saughat.
Rind, Lal Baxsh. 1983a.
Balochi Bwan. Karachi: Balochi Publications.
Rind, Lal Baxsh. 1983b.
Balochi Hel Bikan. Karachi: Balochi Publications.
Sadiq, Abdul Halim and Temur
Khan. 1987. Buni Kitab (“Basic Book”-A Primer in Western Balochi). Quetta: Shal
Association Pakistan.
Sociolinguistic
Studies
Farrell, Tim. 2000. Mother
Tongue Education and the Health and Survival of the Balochi Language. In Carina
Jahani, ed. Language in Society: Eight Sociolinguistic Essays on Baluchi. Pp.
19-32. Uppsala, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
Source=C
Tan, Eunice. 2000. A Mother Tongue Literacy Programme among
the Baloch of Lingo Line, Karachi. In Carina Jahani, ed. Language in Society:
Eight Sociolinguistic Essays on Baluchi. Pp. 59-67. Uppsala, Sweden: Acta
Universitatis Upsaliensis.
Source=C
Materials for Saraiki and
Sindhi
Siraiki
Shackle, Christopher. 1976.
The Siraiki Language of Central Pakistan.
London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London.
Sindhi
Cole, Jennifer S. 2001.
“Sindhi.” Jane Gary and Carl Rubino (editors). Facts about the World’s
Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present. New
York / Dublin: H.W. Wilson Company (A New England Publishing Associates Book).
647-53.
Source=F
Khubchandani, Lachman M.
1981. Sindhi Studies. Pune: Centre for Communication Studies (Studies in
Linguistics Mimeograph Series, Number 7).
Source=F
Lekhwani, Kanhaiyalal and
Davidovic Mladen. 1995. Intensive Course in Sindhi. Pondicherry, India:
Pindicheery Institute of Linguistics and Culture.
An 882-page intensive
course.
Rohra, Satish K. 1971.
“Sindhi, Kacchi, and Emigrant Sindhi.” Indian Linguistics
32.2:123-31.
Source=F
Stack, Captain George. 1849.
Dictionary, English and Sindhi. Bombay: American Mission
Press.
Source=F
Trumpp, Ernest. 1872.
Grammar of the Sindhi Language. London: Trübner and Co. / Leipzig: F.A.
Brockhaus [Reprints: 1986: New Delhi: Asian Education Service;
1986
Ottawa: Laurier Books,
Ltd.]
Source=F and
others
Yegorova, R. P. 1971. The
Sindhi Language. Moscow: Nauka.
Source=F and
others
Work in
Progress
Proposal to the
SALRC
The Development of an
On-line Course in Spoken and Written Sindhi
Jennifer Cole, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, j-cole5@uiuc.edu
The overall goal of this
project is to develop an online course in Sindhi at the beginning level using
materials I created for a classroom-based intensive Sindhi course I co-taught at
the University of Illinois in the summer of 2000. The course is designed to be
used free of charge as a self-study course for anyone with internet access. In
the work proposed here, I will build on the course web-design and prototype
lesson developed during Summer 2002, adding the text content for three complete
lessons, with supporting audio and visual image files.
The lessons will be
implemented as interactive web-pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash web
authoring tools. Each lesson will include a grammar overview, dialogue or
narrative, tutorial, and quiz components. Sindhi words, phrases and sentences
will be presented in text format (Sindhi Arabic and parallel roman
transcription) with audio links. Other components to be developed are Cultural
Notes, a Word List and Glossary. The present goal is to have a portion of the
first-year Sindhi course fully implemented in web format, with audio and image
components, to serve as a demonstration for a future proposal seeking funds for
an assistant to complete
the project. The complete
first-year course, comparable to a university first-year foreign language
course, will comprise approximately 30 lessons, out of which 15 were taught in
the 2000 Intensive Sindhi course.
Miscellaneous
Title: Hindko and
Gujari
Series Title:
Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, Volume 3
Year of First Publication:
1992
Second Printing (with minor corrections):
2003
Publishers: National
Institute of Pakistan Studies, Islamabad, and
Summer Institute of
Linguistics
Author: Calvin R.
Rensch
Author: Calinda E.
Hallberg
Author: Clare F.
O’Leary
Paperback: ISBN:
969-8023-13-5, Pages: xxii+306
Description: The report on
the Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, carried out by SIL researchers
in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, Government of Pakistan, and several
Pakistani institutions between 1986 and 1991, was first published in 1992 in
five volumes. These volumes have been out of print for some time, but a reprint
is currently being undertaken. Volume 3, which deals with the Hindko and Gujari
languages, is now off the press.
Contents of this volume: The
language environment of Hindko-speaking people--
by Calvin R. Rensch, Dialect
variation and multilingualism among Gujars of
Pakistan--by Calinda E.
Hallberg and Clare F. O’Leary
Source=C
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