FEL XIII: Endangered Languages and History: Photographs from the conference

Entering the Pamirs

On the road to Khorog

Yaghnobi speaker, by the Yaghnob river

Horseman in Pamir landscape

At the conference hall

Opening session: The participants hold minute of scilence in the memory of late Prof. Dodikhudo Karamshoev, the founder of the Pamiri branch of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in Khorog; (from left to right). Mr. Hakim Elnazarov, Conference Chairman; Prof. Nicholas Ostler, FEL Chairman; Mr. Shamsiddin Orumbekov, Deputy Chairman of GBAO, Tajikistan; Dr. Nazar Nazarzoda, Director, Institute of Languages and Literature, Dushanbe, Dr. Shodikhon Yusufbekov, Director, Institute of Humanities, Khorog

Prof. Jamshed Parvonaev from Tajik Slavyanik University greets Dr. Shahnaz Hunzai from the Brushaski Academy in Pakistan

Dr. Nicholas Ostler, FEL Chairman and Dr. Saiqa Asif from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Dr. Shahnaz Hunzai from Burushaski Research Academy, Pakistan

Dr. Boghshoh Lashkarbekov, Senior Research Associate, the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Mr. Shamsiddin Orumbekov, Deputy Chairman of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan

Closing session: Mr. Hakim Elnazarov, Dr. Nicholas Ostler and Prof. Shodikhon Yusufbekov

Dr. Vladimir Ivanov (left), Dr.Leila Dodikhudoeva from the Institute of Languages, Russia, Prof. Ofaridaev, Khorog State University

Dr. Nazar Nazarov from the Institute of Languages and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, specialist in Ishkashimi language.

The ladies of FEL XIII

In the botanical gardens, Khorog

In the botanical gardens, Khorog

On the Qahqaha ramparts, at the farthest corner of Tajikistan

Market, Khorog

A well-patronised bookstore