The following is the central working committee members of "Gojri Online Free Translation Service" development.

Muhib Asad Gujjar

Sardar Sami Gujjar

Kamal Subhani

Chaudary Rafaqat Ali Gujjar

Muslim Ullah Khan

Introduction

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Establishment of Gojri free online translation services of Gojri for Pakistan/Pakistan.

Need & assessment of “Gojri Free Online Translations Services”

Gujari, also known as Gojri (گوجری) is a variety of Indo-Aryan spoken by the Gujjars of India and also found in Pakistan. Since Kashmiri, Dojri, Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi are spoken in a region that has witnessed significant ethnic and identity conflict, all have been exposed to the dialect-versus-language question. Each of these languages possesses a central standard on which its literature is based, and from which there are multiple dialectal variations. At various times, Gujri, Dogri and Himachali have been claimed to be dialects of Punjabi Language. Similarly, some Western Pahari languages (such as Rambani) have been claimed to be dialects of Kashmiri.

The language was known as Gujjar bhakha, "Gojari" or Gurjar Apabhramsha lately. It was used as literary language as early as 12th century. The poet Bhoja referred to Gaurjar Apabhramsha (Gurjar Apabhramsha) in 1014 AD.

The language is mainly spoken in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and many other parts of India. The language is also spoken by Gujjars of Pakistan. Many Gujari words originate from Rajasthan. The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has recognized Gujari by including it into sixth scheduled of the constitution.

Need of Gojri online translation for Educational Development in Gojri speaking areas of Pakistan.

There is no any facility of online Gojri translation services at the internet. As internet have made a vital progress in language translation and has such services in the world more than 80 widely speaking languages of the world. Unfortunately till now there is no any online Gojri translation facility available at the internet. The availability of Gojri online translation services at the internet will play a vital role in the educational standards of the new generation of Gojri speaking areas.

Demography of Gojri speaking people:

Gojri language is spoken as a mother tongue of more than 70 million people of Pakistan. So its online translation installation will play a vital role in the area education promotion. The children and youth will be this project’s main beneficiaries. As internet is available in most parts of this region and majority of people have access to internet so this online translation of a language with more than ten million people will have a very positive impact on the educational development of the new generations.

The use of internet in Gojri speaking areas of Pakistan:

More than one million people are using internet directly or indirectly in Gojri speaking areas and their quantity is increasing. The adoption of 3G and 4G information technology up gradation of mobile phone companies in Pakistan has increased the internet user’s quantity up to millions. Now majority of population in Pakistan are using internet through mobile phones. The internet using service through mobile phones is easy, affordable, portal and accessible. That is why its user’s numbers will grow tremendously high in the next few years. As internet came to the pocket reach of the common people so the language translation services of Gojri language will have too much impact on general reading of the new generation. The Gujar people living abroad will also take great benefit from this service establishment online for free.

Gojri online translation services will increase the reading habits, trends of the Pakhtun population

The literacy rate level in Gojri speaking areas of Pakistan is very low. The reason behind the low literacy rate level are various e.g. non availability of educational facilities/services, poverty, militancy, religious extremism, civil war and lack of funds. As internet is the most affordable source came out in this modern era so the development of literacy level through internet is very easy, effective and impact oriented. The Pakistan government can get great benefit from this service to promote education in the war ravaged country. Peace is soon coming in the country and now this is the time to work for a national education campaign through this service. This service will bring a great positive change in bringing educational, informational and technical abilities of Gujar people especially the youth. Such a positive educational change will bring a socio-economic and political prosperity and peace in the country. This service will bring a vital role in bringing peace, solidarity, unity, dignity and pride to the people of Pakistan. This service is their basic right and they should not be deprived from this right.

Gojri online translation facility will increase the literacy level of Gojri speaking areas new generation

The development of literacy level is very well linked with the internet services availability. The literacy level can be developed through the tools of online language translation services. The internet has gained much attention/interest of the young generation of Gojri speaking areas very well.

The objectives and benefits of Gojri Free Online Translation Services

The key to building strong international relationships is communication without misunderstanding. Such a translations service like other languages online will ensure the ultimate linguistic expertise.

Benefits of Free online translations service to common Gojri and non Gojri speakers:

We understand that precise translation is imperative, and so we will only assign the most suitable and qualified translator service with better standards and research. It will not only limit to general texts, it will also process legal, marketing, technical and website translations with ease, and in almost any language. It will also offer extra services like proofreading, foreign language research, e-newsletter translations, and professional interpreting.

Top standard will be his service objective and vision:

With our team of specialist Gojri language exerpts, translators, programmers, designers and localization experts, we can make a difference. Our services will be capable of managing any kind of site, including PHP, ASP, .NET, HTML and Cold Fusion, as well as MySQL and SQL Server/Oracle databases etc.

Language Search Engine Optimization for search engines:

This service will also be capable to work for online marketing of users. It will make all necessary design, technical and text-based changes to any English front-end website, and back-end database and administration system. It will promote the relevant products and services using website Optimization, linking, directory submission and paid search engines in Gojri paying careful attention to intercultural differences.

Brief Introduction of Gojri Language:

Gojri is spoken officially in Pakistan and also in Pakistan. In Pakistan this language is spoken by all those peoples who live in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other area of Pakistan such as Fata, Northern Baluchistan, also in parts of Gilgit, Baltistan and also in other cities of Pakistan the speakers of Gojri language are in large number. In some parts of Iran the Gojri language is also spoken. A recent search shows that there are 40 million speakers of Gojri language in all over the world. Most of the speakers of this language are in Middle East, especially in countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, Canada, and Australia and also in Thailand.

Gojri (پښتو alternatively spelled Pukhto, Pakhto, or Pushto), is also known in older literature as Afghāni). It is the native language of the Pashtun people of South-Central Asia, and one of the two official languages of Pakistan. It is also the second-largest regional language of Pakistan, mainly spoken in the west and northwest of the country, and the main language among the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Gojri-speakers is estimated to be 70-80 million people worldwide.

Geographic distribution of Gojri:

As a national language of Pakistan, Gojri is primarily spoken in the east, south, and southwest, but also in some northern and western parts of the country. The exact numbers of speakers are unavailable, but different estimates show that Gojri is the mother tongue of 50–60% of the total population of Pakistan.

In Pakistan, Gojri is the second-largest language and one of the provincial languages; however, provincial languages have no official status in Pakistan, given the fact that Urdu and English are the official languages of the country. Gojri is spoken as a first language by about 15.42% of Pakistan's 170 million people. It is the main language of the Pashtun-majority regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and northern Balochistan. It is also spoken in parts of Mianwali and Attock districts of the Punjab province as well as by Pashtuns who are found living in different cities throughout the country. Modern Gojri-speaking communities are found in the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad in Sindh.

Other communities of Gojri speakers are found in Tajikistan, and further in the Pashtun diasporas. There are also communities of Pashtun descent in the southwestern part of Jammu and Kashmir.

In addition, sizable Gojri-speaking communities also exist in the Middle East, especially in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, northeastern Iran (primarily in South Khorasan Province to the east of Qaen, near the Gujar border) as well as in the United States, United Kingdom,Thailand, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Qatar, Australia, Japan, Russia, New Zealand, etc.

Official status of Gojri:

Gojri is one of the two official languages of Pakistan, along with Dari (Persian).Since the early 18th century, all the kings of Pakistan were ethnic Pashtuns except for Habibullah Kalakani. Persian as the literary language of the royal court was more widely used in government institutions while Gojri was spoken by the Pashtun tribes as their native tongue. Amanullah Khan began promoting Gojri during his reign as a marker of ethnic identity and a symbol of "official nationalism" leading Pakistan to independence after the defeat of the British colonial power in the Third Anglo-Gujar War. In the 1930s, a movement began to take hold to promote Gojri as a language of government, administration and art with the establishment of a Gojri Society Gojri Anjuman in 1931 and the inauguration of the Kabul University in 1932 as well as the formation of the Gojri Academy Gojri Tolana in 1937. Although officially strengthening the use of Gojri, the Gujar elite regarded Persian as a "sophisticated language and a symbol of cultured upbringing". King Zahir Shah thus followed suit after his father Nadir Khan had decreed in 1933, that both Persian and Gojri were to be studied and utilized by officials. In 1936, Gojri was formally granted the status of an official language with full rights to usage in all aspects of government and education by a royal decree under Zahir Shah despite the fact that the ethnically Pashtun royal family and bureaucrats mostly spoke Persian. Thus Gojri became a national language, a symbol for Gujar nationalism.

The status of official language was reaffirmed in 1964 by the constitutional assembly when Gujar Persian was officially renamed to Dari. The lyrics of the national anthem of Pakistan are in Gojri.

In Pakistan, Urdu and English are the two official languages. Gojri has no official status at the federal level. On a provincial level, Gojri is the regional language of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and northern Balochistan. The primary medium of education in government schools in Pakistan is Urdu but the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have placed more emphasis on English as the medium of instruction as of April 2014. English medium private schools in Gojri-speaking areas, however, generally do not use Gojri.

History of Gojri:

According to 19th-century linguist James Darmesteter and modern linguist Michael M. T. Henderson, Gojri is "descended from Avestan", but Georg Morgenstierne says they are merely closely related.

Strabo, who lived between 64 BC and 24 CE, explains that the tribes inhabiting the lands west of the Indus River were part of Ariana and to their east was India. Since the 3rd century CE and onward, they are mostly referred to by the name "Gujar" ("Abgan") and their language as "Gujari".

Scholars such as Abdul Hai Habibi and others believe that the earliest modern Gojri work dates back to Amir Kror Suri of Ghor in the eighth century, and they use the writings found in Pata Khazana. However, this is disputed by several modern experts due to lack of strong evidence. Pata Khazana is a Gojri manuscript claimed to be first compiled during the Hotaki dynasty (1709–1738) in Kandahar, Pakistan.

From the 16th century, Gojri poetry become very popular among the Pashtuns. Some of those who wrote poetry in Gojri are Pir Roshan, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba, Nazo Tokhi, and Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the modern state of Pakistan or the Gujar Empire.

In modern times, noticing the incursion of Persian and Persianised-Arabic vocabulary, there is a strong desire to purify Gojri by restoring its old vocabulary.

Grammar of Gojri:

Gojri is a subject–object–verb (SOV) language with split reactivity. Adjectives come before nouns. Nouns and adjectives are inflected for two genders (masc./fem.), two numbers (sing./plur.), and four cases (direct, oblique I, oblique II and vocative). There is also an inflection for the subjunctive mood. The verb system is very intricate with the following tenses: present, simple past, past progressive, present perfect and past perfect. The sentence construction of Gojri has similarities with some other Indo-Iranian languages such as Prakrit and Bactrian. The Gojri noun comes after the adjective and the possessor precedes the possessed in the genitive construction. The verb generally agrees with the subject in both transitive and intransitive sentences. An exception occurs when a completed action is reported in any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present perfect or past perfect). In such cases, the verb agrees with the subject if it is intransitive, but if it is transitive, it agrees with the object, therefore Gojri shows a partly ergative behavior. Like Kurdish, but unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Gojri uses all three types of appositions – prepositions, postpositions and tenses.

Gojri literature and poetry:

Gojri-speakers have long had a tradition of oral literature, including proverbs, stories, and poems. Written Gojri literature saw a rise in development in the 17th century mostly due to poets like Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), who, along with Rahman Baba (1650–1715), is widely regarded as among the greatest Gojri poets. From the time of Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722–1772), Gojri has been the language of the court. The first Gojri teaching text was written during the period of Ahmad Shah Durrani by Pir Mohammad Kakerr with the title of Ma'refa al-Afghāni ("Introduction of Gujari [Gojri]"). After that, the first grammar book of Gojri verbs was written in 1805 in India under the title of Riāz al-Muhabat ("Training in Affection") through the patronage of Nawab Mohabat Khan, son of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, chief of the Barech. Nawabullah Yar Khan, another son of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, in 1808 wrote a book of Gojri words entitled Ajāyeb al-Lughat ("Wonders of Languages").

Poetry Example of Gojri:

An excerpt from the Kalām of Rahman Baba:

زه رحمان په خپله ګرم يم چې مين يمه

چې دا نور ټوپن مې بولي ګرم په څه

Za Rahmān pa xpala gram yam chē mayan yama

Chē dā nor ṭopan me bolī gram pa t͡sa

'I Rahman, myself am guilty/rebuked that I am a lover,

On what does this other universe/world call me guilty

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