Abstract
The study aims to trace the history of Tarawara community Tehsil
Oghi, district Mansehra in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Tarawara. community with 500 speakers of a dying language resides
on a remote hilltop village, Dana. Dana is one of the many villages
located in Bandi Shungli. The study assumes that marginalization and
subsequent loss of a language spoken by an ethnic minority are rooted
in socio-cultural and socio-historical contexts. The study has
employed the theoretical lens of ethnohistorical perspective to
understand the historical traces of substantial marginalization of
Tarawara community which led to the present-day language shift and
impending language loss of an undocumented language, Mankiyaii.
Drawing upon Braun and Clarke (2006), the study analyses the
ethnographic data in six stages. The study has been an endeavor to
understand the embedded themes appearing in interviews, focus
groups, and participant observation of this study and to integrate it
with the written resources. The ethnographic data and the available
literature confirmed that the socio-political and_ socio-historical
backgrounds result in the marginalization of the speakers in this group.
Uzma Anjum , Tahir Saleem, Ayyaz Qadeer , Muhmmad Khalid, Wasima Shehzad. (2020) arawara community a marginalized linguistic community: An ethnohistorical perspective, Journal of Asian Civilizations, Volume 43, Issue 2.
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