Brahui
Americannoun
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a member of a nomadic people of Baluchistan.
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the Dravidian language spoken by the Brahui.
noun
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a language spoken in Pakistan, forming an isolated branch of the Dravidian family
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a member of the people that speaks this language
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There are numerous other languages spoken by minorities in the population, including Brahui, Burushaski and Hindko.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2015
Brahui was born, raised and fought the Russians in Chahar Burjak, a district in the south of Nimruz: the same hard country smugglers and migrants must traverse to get to Pakistan.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2012
Ismail Khan, en route to see Brahui, suffered the misfortune of hitting the mine.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2012
When the Taliban expanded from Kandahar, Brahui consolidated his Baluchi fighters, once again, in Chahar Burjak.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2012
But the curious Brahui language, which is classed as Dravidian, has negative forms in which pa is inserted into the verb, as in Yakut Turkish, e.g.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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