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Calvin R. Rensch
(5.7) Responses from Four Hindko Communities to Recorded
Speech Samples from Wad Pagga and Talagang
Good, friendly
Is speaker Come from people in
educated? good place? that place?
Wad Tala- Wad Tala- Wad Tala-
Pagga gang Pagga gang Pagga gang
Balakot 5+ 2+ 3+ 3+ 5+ 2+
n = 6 1– 4– 0– 2– 1– 2–
Sherpur 2+ 1+ 6+ 4+ 6+ 2+
n = 6 4– 5– 0– 2– 0– 2–
Singo di Garhi 1+ 0+ 2+ 1+ 1+
n = 2 1– 2– 0– 1– 1–
Abbottabad 0+ 0+ 1+ 1+ 1+
n = 2 1– 1– 0– 0– 1–
+ = positive comment (educated, good place, friendly people, etc.)
– = negative comment (uneducated, not good place, not friendly people, etc.)
The response of any individual to any one question is not
significant. Certainly the questions may have different
connotations to different respondents. The questions may appear
to be overlapping to some respondents and not to others.
However, the cumulative effect of the responses may well
indicate attitudes.
The responses to the Wad Pagga speech sample were
generally positive (33+ and 10–) while the responses to the
Talagang speech sample were more mixed, with negative
responses outnumbering positive (16+ and 21–). From this pilot
study we may draw the tentative conclusions that attitudes of
Hindko speakers in Hazara Division are not negative toward the
two southern dialects sampled and that attitudes toward the Wad
Pagga dialect (rural Peshawar) are more favorable than those
toward Talagang (Attock District).
Respondents were also asked to state where the best Hindko
is spoken. Since all fourteen respondents are from Hazara
Division, it is perhaps not surprising that five of them said