Welcome, Irum! I hope you’ll consider writing a guest blog post about multilingual Gilgit Baltistan 🙂 I’m sure I speak for all our readers when I say I’d love to learn more about your fascinating part of the world.

Iv recently joined this forum.Mr. Khan invited me to this forum and i feel honoured to be a part of it.Before introducing myself i ‘d like to congratulate Ingrid for such a wonderful achievement and appreciation…..and Donna Butorac, for accepting the award on her behalf and for getting her own award at the AGM, the 2012 Michael Clyne Award for the best research thesis in the area of immigrant bilingualism and language contact in Australia…Congratulations to both!!!! .Now I would like to give a brief introduction of mine..I am Irum Batool From Gigit Baltistan(Pakistan). I’v done my Masters in Linguistics from Karakarum International University Gilgit Baltistan and Presently I am Serving in the same university as lecturer…
Some of you might be familiar with this region but for those who aren’t, let me tell you that GB is a multilingual area where approximately 9 languages are spoken..so this region is having a great multilinguistic diversity..the languages spoken in Gilgit Baltistan are English as a foreign Language, Urdu as National Language..other than these languages the local languages spoken in this region are Shina, as a major language spoken by majority of people, having different dialects like astori shina, gilgiti shina,chilasi shina etc, Brushiski, wakhi, doomki, Balti etc…
so time to time we would be sharing a number of things related to multilinguilism in the context of Gilgit Baltistan.. 🙂

Cheers All..:)

Irum

Congratulation, Ingrid. What an achievement and appreciation….

I am so happy and delighted to hear this great news and I congratulate you, your family and friends of Language on the Move. It’s an honour for all of us and for Donna to receive the prestigious award on behalf of her teacher.

Long Live Language on the Move. Congratulations once again.

Khan
Pakistan