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Burushaski

[ boor-uh-shah-skee ]

noun

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


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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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