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Shina language

Shina (also known as Tshina) is a Dardic language and is spoken by a plurality of people in Northern Areas of Pakistan. The Valleys include Astore, Chilas, Dareil, Tangeer, Gilgit, Ghizer, and a few parts of Baltistan and Kohistan. It is also spoken in Gurez, Drass, Kargil][karkit badgam and Ladakh valleys of Jammu and Kashmir. There were 321,000 speakers of Gilgiti Shina as of 1981, and an estimated total of speakers of all dialects of 550,000. Many Shina speakers are also found in Pakistan's major urban centres of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Abbottabad, Hyderabad and Karachi. Shina is a highly inflectional language and do not have all the preposuppositions lihe English, rather with a slight modification of the nouns, the purpose of the preposupposition is fulfilled. Zia, a linguistic student in sweden is of the view that Shina has some structural similarities with English as the shina verbs are modified accordindg to the case and tense like, likhay-write to likhas(have written).likhum(will write) likhao(he wrote) and so on Dialects include Gilgiti Shina (the main dialect), Astori Shina, Brokskad (of Baltistan and Ladakh), Domaaki, Kohistani Shina, Palula, Savi and Ushojo.

By Rehmat Nazar