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IAL Resources and Links
Links to Online Resources Available by Language
Balochi
The Sweet Tongue: Metaphor in Balochi by Dr. Tim Farrell
A Literacy Survey: Attitudes Towards Education Among the Baloch of Karachi by Carroll Stevens
The Sound System of the Balochi Language by Saeed Zubair
Brahui
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Dhatki
Hazaragi
Kachhi
Kachhi Community Development Association (KCDA)
Marwari
Oadki
Oadki Language & Community Development Organization (OLCDO)
Parkari
Parkari Community Development Programme (PCDP)
Punjabi
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Pashto
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Saraiki
Sindhi
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Thradri
Urdu
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Wadiyari
Links to Computer Resources
Linguistic Software
FLEx - FieldWorks Language Explorer
FieldWorks or FLEx consists of software tools that help you manage linguistic and cultural data. It is particularly suited to making dictionaries.
Toolbox (The Field Linguist's Toolbox)
Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind of data.
Lexique Pro is an interactive lexicon viewer and editor, with hyperlinks between entries, category views, dictionary reversal, search, and export tools. It's designed to display your data in a user-friendly format so you can distribute it to others.
Other Unicode-Aware Software
Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions for Windows support Urdu and Sindhi based Unicode fonts. It may be necessary to upgrade your version of Uniscribe (USP10.dll) to a recent version (at least 1.626.6001.18000 which comes with Vista). Currently, the Apple Mac version does not properly support these fonts. MS Office may be purchased from www.microsoft.com.
OpenOffice is a free and cross-platform productivity suite that supports Urdu and Sindhi based Unicode fonts. It may be necessary to upgrade your version of Uniscribe (USP10.dll) to a recent version (at least 1.626.6001.18000 which comes with Vista). Currently, the Apple Mac version does not properly support these fonts.
MicroSoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC)
Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) is a free program which facilitates creating custom language keyboards for Microsoft Windows. They may be packaged for easy distribution and installation.
The Microsoft Visual OpenType Layout Tool provides an easy-to-use interface to add OpenType layout tables to fonts with TrueType outlines. It is licensed for free and can be downloaded from the online community set up for it.
Unicode Fonts for Writing Urdu and Sindhi Script
An OpenType Naskh font suitable for writing Urdu and other Urdu-script based languages
An OpenType Naskh font suitable for writing Sindhi and other Sindhi-script based languages
An OpenType Nastaliq font suitable for writing Urdu
An OpenType Nastaliq font suitable for writing Urdu
An OpenType Nastaliq font suitable for writing Urdu and other Urdu-script based languages
This is a Graphite font. It works in LibreOffice, FireFox, FLEx, XeTeX and Paratext but will not work in Microsoft products such as Office.
MS Keyboards for Writing Urdu and Sindhi Script
This keyboard is used to type the languages that use an Urdu-based Nastaleeq or Naskh script. These include Urdu, Balochi, Punjabi, Marwari, and Saraiki, etc.
This keyboard is used to type in various languages of the Sindh that use the Sindhi script. These include Sindhi, Dhatki, Parkari, Kachi Koli, Tharadari, Marwari, Oadki, and Wadiyari etc.
IPA Phonetic Keyboard for Languages of Southern Pakistan
This keyboard is used to type the International Phonetic Alphabet representation for the pronunciation of words in the languages of Pakistan.
IPA Pak Times IPA Keyboard for Languages of Southern Pakistan
This keyboard is used to type a traditional romanized representation for the pronunciation of words in the languages of Pakistan. This is not the same as Roman Urdu, which may be typed with a regular English keyboard.