Burushaski

[boor-uh-shah-skee]

noun

1. a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.

Example Sentences

For example, we learn about Emily and David Lorimer, who, in the 1920s and ’30s, managed to master “the scriptless Burushaski” spoken in Hunza: “With its seven words for ‘mother,’ its four genders, twenty-eight plural endings, numerous syntactic oddities and subtle meaning shifts, it was the sole surviving relic of India’s pre-Aryan languages.”

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There are numerous other languages spoken by minorities in the population, including Brahui, Burushaski and Hindko.

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