Report on Lacal Names and Uses of Plants in Kalam Kohistan

By: Dr. Joan Baart, Esther Baart and Muhammad Zaman Sagar

This paper presents the results of a small lexicography project in the Kalam Kohistani language (also called Gawri) of northern Pakistan. The purpose of the project was to describe a subset of the Kalam Kohistani lexicon, namely vocabulary belonging to the semantic domain of plants. This was achieved by compiling a list of Kalam Kohistani plant names, establishing (as much as possible) the biological species that each name refers to, and recording where the plants are found and what use is made of them by the local population. The project made a contribution to the larger goal of compiling a dictionary of the Kalam Kohistani language, while the information that was collected on local plants and their names and uses also provides a basis for a more full-fledged ethnobotany of Kalam Kohistan (yet to be undertaken).

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Year of publication
2007

Pages
169

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