A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HINDKO GRAMMAR 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.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HINDKO GRAMMAR
By HALIL TOKERTrafford Publishing
Copyright © 2014 Dr. Halil Toker
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-2379-2Contents
PREFACE, xv,
INTRODUCTION, xix,
FOREWORD, xxiii,
THE HINDKO SCRIPT AND SOUND SYSTEM, 1,
NOUN, 11,
ADJECTIVE, 19,
PRONOUNS, 37,
POSTPOSITIONS, 55,
ADVERBS, 61,
CONJUNCTIONS, 69,
INTERJECTIONS, 71,
THE VERB, 73,
INFINITIVE, 74,
VERB OF BEING ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), 87,
THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE, 93,
THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE, 99,
THE FUTURE SIMPLE TENSE, 103,
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD, 107,
THE IMPERATIVE MOOD, 111,
PAST TENSES, 115,
THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE, 117,
THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE, 123,
THE PAST PERFECT TENSE, 129,
THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE, 135,
THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE OR PAST PRESUMPTIVE MOOD, 143,
THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE OR PRESUMPTIVE MOOD, 149,
Presumptive Present Habitual, 149,
CONDITIONALS, 157,
PAST CONDITIONAL TENSE, 161,
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD, 165,
PASSIVE VOICE, 175,
CAUSAL VERBS, 181,
ABILITY STRUCTURE, 185,
COMPULSION CONSTRUCTIONS, 189,
APPENDIXES, 223,
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 243,
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HINDKO GRAMMAR, 245,
INTRODUCTION
It is my pleasure to write a few lines about the great work on Hindko grammar by my brother Dr. Halil Toker. I wish I could write more, but I am extremely busy reviewing my own five books which I want to be published before the end of this year. I am working fourteen hours a day. Still, I have stolen some time from my busy schedule.
I met Dr. Halil first at an International Urdu Conference at Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan. My second meeting with him was at Peshawar where he was the chief guest and I presided the function at Peshawar Model College. I found him very friendly. He surprised me with his fluent Urdu. He is the head of the Urdu Department at Istanbul University, Turkey. Our third encounter was at the International Conference about Allamah Iqbal at the Urdu Department, Istanbul University, Turkey.
There I found out that he was not only an author of very many Urdu books but an outstanding poet of Urdu as well. I was very much impressed by the depth of his knowledge and the height of his thoughts. To my great surprise, he told me that he was writing a grammar book of Hindko. We wanted to discuss it, but the time of my stay there was too short and our schedule was too tight to allow that.
On my return to England, he contacted me and asked me if I could exchange views on his proposed grammar of Hindko. Since then, he has been in continuous contact with me. During this period of over four years, he impressed me with his zeal and perseverance ever more. His quest for knowledge and love for Hindko left a lasting impression on me. In the end, I was delighted to receive his e-mail saying that he had completed the book. He asked me if I would like to have a final look at the script. It was an honor to me, and I accepted the offer without any hesitation. It was August 2012. I received his script at the end of the month. I set aside all my own literary works and spent the whole month of September going through it.
I am happy to say that I found the work of Dr. Halil of high standard. He did not leave any stone unturned to make it a classical job. It is the result of his unquenched thirst for search and research.
This is the second grammar book of Hindko. The first one was written by a native speaker of the language and this second one by a great Turk brother and lover of the language. I must say that it is a valuable gift of our Turk scholar to Hindkowaans and to the people of Pakistan. I congratulate him on production of the precious book. It will be remembered by lovers of the Hindko language as a token of the historical love that exists between the two brother countries of Turkey and Pakistan for many centuries to come.
I take this opportunity to appeal to the government of KPK and the vice chancellor of the Peshawar University to open a Department of Turkish Language and Culture at the University of Peshawar. This will further strengthen the bonds between the people of the two countries.
Dr. Elahi Bakhsh Akhtar Awan PhD (London) 18 October 2012
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