Wakhi – Made in Germany
From the Blog pamirtimes [image: 2]By: Muhammad Ali ‘’Chiz holi?’’, asked Marie, a German student in Munich. ‘‘Bafam, shobosh’’, I replied. ‘’Chiz holi’’ is a Wakhi way of saying ‘how are you’ and ‘Bafam, shobosh’ is the reply to it, meaning ‘good, thanks’. That was so interesting when I met students learning my language, Wakhi, taught by a German linguist, Dr. Beate Reinhold. ‘Mein Name ist Muhammad Ali‘, I was so excited that I replied in German when I was asked in Wakhi to introduce myself. It was one of my great life experiences to find German Wakhi speakers. Wakhi as a language is under serious threat as the number of native speakers is shrinking. Finding such students in Germany is giving us inspiration to look after this and many other beautiful endangered languages. Let’s visit Munich and find pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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