The Gandhara Hindko Academy has published the fifth edition of the Hindko-Urdu dictionary. A press release said, “The two-volume dictionary has 2032 pages and over 100,000 words and expressions.”
It said, “The latest edition is a continuation of the first lexicon prepared by the late Prof Dr Elahi Bakhsh Awan, who hailed from the walled city of Peshawar.” He had earned his doctorate in Linguistics 50 years back from the University of London, England, after carrying out extensive research on the phonology of the Hindko language.
The Gandhara Hindko Board published the first edition of the dictionary in 2008 during the lifetime of Dr Elahi Bakhsh Awan who had several other research-based publications to his credit.
Later, the board and the academy brought out four editions of the dictionary in 2017, 2019, 2022, and now the latest one in the year 2023. The work was accomplished by a team comprising Dr Muhammad Adil, Zeeshan Ghaznavi, Saqib Hussain, Ali Awais Khayal, Muhammad Noman Qayyum and Bilal Ahmad.
