This is a roman-based Khowar-English vocabulary/glossary/dictionary which I have chosen to call "glossary" since it makes no claim to completeness. It includes contextual and cultural notes when such information was supplied by the people who contributed to it.  Each entry consists of a headword, English gloss or definition, and sources.  Many entries include example sentences with English translations, derivational notes, or etymological notes. Sources for each entry (the persons who have contributed the item) are given for each entry.

The two main target audiences for this work are speakers of Khowar and all kinds of linguists.

This paper explores the question of whether mirative meaning, in the sense of Aksu-Koç and Slobin’s (1986) “unprepared mind” and DeLancey (1997), is grammatically encoded in the Dardic language Shina. Mirativity marking in Shina’s linguistic neighbors is examined and compared with the situation in Shina. I find a clustering of what appears to be morphologically indicated mirativity in the eastern dialects of Shina, and identify two morphological strategies which can be employed to encode mirativity.

This is a proposal to add characters in the Arabic script to the international character encoding standard Unicode needed to represent the Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski languages. The characters were published in Unicode Standard version 5.1 in March 2008. The languages using these characters are located in northern Pakistan.