PESHAWAR, March 18: Three Peshawar University students have developed linguistics software after carrying out ground-breaking research on various aspects of Hindko language.

This was stated in a function organised on Saturday by the Gandhara Hinko Board to acknowledge the thesis work carried out by Saima Jabeen, Mudassar Niaz and Bilal Khan of the university’s computer science department. The function, presided over by computer science department’s head Prof Aysha Sameen, was held in the premises of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry here.

Prof Aysha Sameen of the computer science department presided over the meeting while the board’s vice-chairman Dr Adnan Gul was the chief guest.

Saima Jabeen told the audience about her 130-page scientific research titled ‘computational morphology of Hindko language’. Mudassar Niaz and Bilal Khan discussed their joint 140-page work on ‘Hindko Phonology’. The students explained various aspects of their work that was supervised by Prof Dr Mohammad Abid Khan.

The researchers thanked Prof Dr Elahi Bakhsh Awan, a linguist and Hindko research scholar from Peshawar with a doctoral degree in linguistics from the University of London, and Prof Dr Sabir Kalorvi, another Hindko researcher and chairman of the university’s Urdu department and Hindko board’s general secretary Mohammad Ziauddin for guiding them throughout their research.

Saima said that she had developed a Hindko software capable of identifying various categories of words constituting a sentence such as nouns, pronouns and verbs, she said.