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Languages of the Archive

Urdu

A major language of publication, administration, and literary life in AJK. Pages here will distinguish source Urdu from translations into or out of Urdu.

Archive note

No Urdu translations are public yet.

This landing will hold naming notes, script practice, regional varieties, transliteration and translation conventions, and links to related Dhaar materials once they exist. Counts and sample titles are not invented to fill the layout.

Scripts

  • Nastaliq / Perso-Arabic
  • Roman transliteration where useful

Dhaar does not assume one language equals one script. Source script is preserved in the record.

What this page will hold

  • Name of the language and community naming notes
  • Script(s) and orthographic practice in sources
  • Regional varieties / dialects where documented
  • Historical use in the archive
  • Transliteration conventions
  • Translation conventions
  • Related Recovered Texts
  • Related archive records and collections