We're not a company. We're just a group of people who care about Shina — the language, the script, the culture — and got tired of waiting for someone else to do something about it.
Shina has always been spoken more than written. For a lot of us, learning the script meant digging through old books, asking elders, or piecing things together on our own. There was no clean, accessible place to start. So we built one.
The Shina Qaida is our attempt to change that — a free, modern way to learn the Shina script, made for the community, by people from that same community. No paywalls, no subscriptions, no expiry. Just the language, open to anyone who wants to learn it.
We're a small team and we don't have all the answers. But we're listening — to feedback, to suggestions, to anyone who tells us something isn't working. This project grows as the community grows, and that's exactly how we want it.
Heartfelt thanks to the scholars, authors, and language activists of Gilgit-Baltistan whose decades of research standardized the Arabic-based Shina script orthography.
Beautiful rendering of Shina text is enabled by Google Fonts' Noto Naskh Arabic and specifically tailored Perso-Arabic typefaces optimized for Nastaliq and Naskh scripts.
This application is powered by Next.js, React, Lucide Icons, and the Vercel ecosystem. Built with to promote digital literacy.