The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has started work on procuring manuscripts and other essential items for the country’s first-ever literature-based museum of Pakistani languages being established here at the academy.

PAL Chairperson Najiba Arif told APP that the establishment of a literary museum aimed at protecting and promoting the unique literary asset of all the regional languages of the country.

Besides the preservation and promotion of the unique linguistic taste of Pakistani culture and linguistics, the museum would provide an opportunity for visitors to seek information about scripts, history, alphabetical information, folk tales and prominent literature of the regional languages of Pakistan, she added.

Najiba said that the museum would provide information about all the regional languages being spoken in the length and breadth of the country in the form of scripts, booklets, audio and video documentary displays.