Inam Ullah

Mr. Inam Ullah is a Torwali mother-tongue speaker, hails from Bahrain district Swat Pakistan. He is an educationist, linguist, language activist and a freelance lexicographer. He is pioneer in Torwali orthography since 1995 and has proposed the first ever special characters in order to write the peculiar sounds of his mother-tongue. Torwali Dictionary has been his ground-breaking work published by National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore in 2010.  Torwali Dictionary Project has been recognized by UNESCO in its “Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation’. He is affiliated with the Center for Language Engineering (CLE) Lahore as consultant under which he has completed a number of projects on various languages of Pakistan, specifically, Urdu, Pashto and Torwali. He works as a Research Fellow at Gandhara Hindko Academy, Peshawar and teaches as Senior Science Teacher at the Centennial Model High School Wadudia, Saidu Sharif Swat. He voluntarily works as vice-chair of Task Force on Arabic script-based Internationalized Domain Names (TF-AIDN), a group under ICANN to enable Arabic script-based languages for Internet Domain Names. He has travelled more than a dozen of countries attending meetings, workshops and conferences.