A Practical Guide to Hindko Grammar
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Hindko is one of the charming languages of the Pak-Indo Subcontinent which is spoken broadly in the districts of Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Attock and the cities like Peshawar, Nowshera, Swabi, Kohat and some other cities and towns of Pakistan.
From the viewpoint of some scholars Hindko is a dialect of Panjabi and to the others it is a separate language. Whether one can recognize it as a separate language or a dialect, Hindko is a beautiful language which has its own rich historical background, its own vocabulary treasure and grammatical rules and its own melodic language structure.
Each language of the world is an immense heritage of the mankind which should be preserved by all means, whether it be a language of a little clan of the vast African jungles or the lingua franca of our times English. Dying of a language is like the death of a heritage that has been achieved through the centuries and it, absolutely, is like the death of a living cell of the body of the mankind. After some years of my studies on Hindko, I realized that if something is not done, like the many different languages of the world, which remained as the old and forgotten names in the pages of history books or in some research books, this beautiful language, most likely, will also be a part of old times. What I could do to preserve this language, it was to prepare a grammar for Hindko.
So I prepared this book and you will find a practical way of the Hindko grammar in this book.
Dr. Halil Toker
Dr. Halil Toker is a professor at Urdu Language and Literature Department, Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul-Turkey. He has specialized in Urdu and Persian but he knows some other languages of the Sub-continent like Hindi, Panjabi and Hindko as well. He has thirty (30) published books and more than a hundred articles in Turkish, Urdu and English to his credit. He has a special interest in Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, the renowned thinker and poet of the Islamic World and has some research works on him.
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A Practical Guide to Hindko Grammar - Dr. Halil Toker
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Contents
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
THE HINDKO SCRIPT AND SOUND SYSTEM
The Hindko Alphabet
NOUN
A) Gender
B) Number
ADJECTIVE
Descriptive Adjectives
Declinable Adjectives
Indeclinable Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjectives
Interrogative Adjectives
Numeral Adjectives
Distributive Numerals
Fractional Numbers
Multiplicative Numerals
Superlative Adjectives
Pronominal Adjectives
PRONOUNS
Personal Pronouns
Definite Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns
POSTPOSITIONS
Possessive Case
ADVERBS
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of degree
Conjunctive adverbs
Interrogative adverbs
Adverbs of sentence
Adverbs of reason
Numeral Adverbs
CONJUNCTIONS
INTERJECTIONS
THE VERB
INFINITIVE
Agent Noun or Active Participles
Passive Participle
The Imperfective Participle
Past Conjunctive Participle
VERB OF BEING
Present Tense
Past Tense
Future Tense
THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
THE FUTURE SIMPLE TENSE
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
THE IMPERATIVE MOOD
PAST TENSES
THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE
THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE
THE PAST PERFECT TENSE
THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
FIRST FORM
SECOND FORM OF PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE OR PAST HABITUAL
THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE OR PAST PRESUMPTIVE MOOD
THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE OR PRESUMPTIVE MOOD
PRESUMPTIVE PRESENT HABITUAL
PRESUMPTIVE PROGRESSIVE
CONDITIONALS
FUTURE CONDITIONS
PAST CONDITIONAL TENSE
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
Past Subjunctive
Present Habitual Subjunctive
Present Progressive Subjunctive
PASSIVE VOICE
Present Simple Passive
Past Simple Passive
CAUSAL VERBS
ABILITY STRUCTURE
Present Simple Passive
COMPULSION CONSTRUCTIONS
COMPOUND VERBS
APPENDIXES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HINDKO GRAMMAR
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the late Dr. Elahi Bakhsh Awan—a true lover of the Hindko language—for his kindness and devotion and for his endless support when I was writing this book.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank a number of people who were involved in different capacities throughout the production of this book. Thanks first go to the late Dr. Khatir Gaznavi, Mr. Naseem Ahmad Kwajah, and Mr. Muhammad Zahoor Sethi who inspired me to learn the Hindko language. To the late Dr. Elahi Bakhsh Awan who gave invaluable guidance, support, and advice during the entire process. Also, my thanks go to Mrs. Chris Kwajah and Mr. Nadeem who checked my book’s English text, and to Muhammad Hanif Khan who kindly gave information about the Hindko accent spoken in Haripur-Hazara. Last but not least, I wish to thank Dr. Rauf Parekh who kindly accepted to write a foreword to my book.
PREFACE
Hindko is one of the charming languages of the Pak-Indo Subcontinent, which is spoken broadly in the districts of Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Attock, and the cities like Peshawar, Nowshera, Swabi, Kohat, and some other cities and towns of Pakistan.
From the viewpoint of some scholars, Hindko is a dialect of Panjabi; and to the others, it is a separate language. Whether one can recognize it as a separate language or a dialect, Hindko is a beautiful language which has its own rich historical background, its own vocabulary treasure and grammatical rules, and its own melodic language structure.
Each language of the world is an immense heritage of mankind which should be preserved by all means, whether it be the language of a little clan of the vast African jungles or the lingua franca of our times, English. The death of a language is like the death of a heritage that has been achieved through the centuries, and it absolutely is like the death of a living cell of the body of mankind.
After some years of my studies on Hindko, I realized that if something is not done—like the many different languages of the world, which remained as the old and forgotten names in the pages of history books or in some research books—this beautiful language, most likely, will also be a relic of ancient times. Suddenly, this fact seemed to me a horrible loss for the civilization of mankind, and this forced me to think I should do something—whatever I could do—to preserve this language.
What I could do best was to prepare a grammar manual for Hindko. As far as I could understand, there are only a few such resources, especially for non-Hindko-speaking people of Pakistan or for foreigners like me who are interested in the