Hussain Faizy Indus Kohistani Corpus

Language

Indus Kohistani (mvy) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the upper Indus Valley of northern Pakistan, primarily in Kohistan district. It is used across several villages and valleys, showing noticeable variation in pronunciation and vocabulary between communities. The language is rich in oral traditions, with folktales, poetry, and storytelling serving as important cultural practices. Although widely spoken, it remains under-documented and has limited written materials, making it an important language for linguistic research and resource development.

Content of the Corpus

• Folktales and traditional narratives

• Oral histories and storytelling

• Poetry and songs

• Children's stories

• Biographies and life narratives

• Conversational dialogues

• Descriptive and explanatory texts

• Proverbs and short sayings

• Religious Literature

Processing

The processing will combine all plain text, PDF text, digits, and reference images into a clean, organized dataset. Text from PDFs will be extracted directly and standardized for Unicode, spacing, and orthography, while digits and symbols will be cleaned and formatted consistently. The images, which contain no text, will be stored as reference materials in a structured folder. The final output will include uniformly formatted UTF-8 text files and neatly organized reference images.

List of Alphabets

َ ُ ِ ّ ا ب پ ت ٹ ث چ ڇ څ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ ڙ س ش ݜ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن ݨ و ہ ی

Sample Text

او ڙھا تیں بال لر نی تھی، نہ مہ زُنازُو تیں مُخالیۡفت کرم تُھو چے سِوَیں ژؤن٘دُناں مُختلف حالتیُوں مہ ادا کرَیں لاقَت لہ تَنہی نی ہُوئ تھی۔ دویُوں مِثال ݜے تھُو چے کماݜ لازمی کمہۡ (واجب) مُوڙ (چُن٘ڑ بول)، گُو (تھُل بول) یا