Burushaski
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Burushaski is a language isolate spoken by the Burusho people in northern Pakistan, particularly in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Aliases (1)
- Burusho ×1
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language isolate
→
natural language → |
| basicWordOrder |
SOV
→
|
| country |
Pakistan
→
|
| ethnicGroup |
Burusho people
→
|
| geneticRelation |
no widely accepted relation to other language families
→
|
| glottologCode |
buru1296
→
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Burúśaski
→
Khajuna (exonym, obsolete/pejorative) → |
| hasApproximateSpeakers |
90000
→
|
| hasCaseSystem |
multiple grammatical cases
→
|
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Hunza Valley culture
→
Nagar Valley culture → Yasin Valley culture → |
| hasDialect |
Hunza dialect
→
Nagar dialect → Werchikwar dialect → Yasin dialect → |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
→
English → Kashmiri → Persian → Shina → Urdu → |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
complex verb morphology
→
ergative alignment → rich noun class system → |
| hasMorphologicalType |
agglutinative
→
|
| hasNotableGrammarWork |
Hermann Berger’s Burushaski grammar
→
|
| hasNounClasses |
four noun classes
→
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
tone-like pitch distinctions (analysed variably)
→
|
| ISO639-3Code |
bsk
→
|
| languageFamily |
language isolate
→
|
| languageStatus |
vulnerable
→
|
| neighboringLanguage |
Shina
→
Urdu → Wakhi → |
| region |
northern Pakistan
→
|
| spokenIn |
Gilgit-Baltistan
→
Hunza Valley → Nagar Valley → Pakistan → Yasin Valley → |
| studiedBy |
linguist D. L. R. Lorimer
→
linguist Georg Morgenstierne → linguist Hermann Berger → |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
→
Latin script → |
Referenced by (6)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Gilgit
→
|
commonlySpokenLanguage |
|
Hispar Glacier
→
|
languageOfToponym |
|
Ghizer Valley
→
|
languageSpoken |
|
Hunza Valley
("Burusho")
→
|
primaryEthnicGroup |
|
Hunza Valley
→
|
primaryLanguages |
|
Gilgit-Baltistan
→
|
spokenLanguage |