Burushaski

E85247
language isolate natural language

Burushaski is a language isolate spoken by the Burusho people in northern Pakistan, particularly in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Burushaski canonical 29
Burushaski language 5
Burushaski (a language isolate) 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 language ⓘ
surface form: Persian

Shina ⓘ
Urdu language ⓘ
surface form: 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 language ⓘ
surface form: Urdu

Wakhi ⓘ
region northern Pakistan ⓘ
spokenIn Gilgit-Baltistan ⓘ
Hunza Valley ⓘ
Nagar Valley ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ
Ghizer Valley ⓘ
surface form: Yasin Valley
studiedBy linguist D. L. R. Lorimer ⓘ
linguist Georg Morgenstierne ⓘ
linguist Hermann Berger ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (36)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gilgit-Baltistan → spokenLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Hunza Valley → primaryEthnicGroup → Burushaski ⓘ
this entity surface form: Burusho
Hunza Valley → primaryLanguages → Burushaski ⓘ
Hispar Glacier → languageOfToponym → Burushaski ⓘ
Gilgit → commonlySpokenLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Ghizer Valley → languageSpoken → Burushaski ⓘ
northern Pakistan → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
subject surface form: Northern Pakistan
Dené–Caucasian (controversial) → hasProposedMember → Burushaski ⓘ
subject surface form: Dené–Caucasian
this entity surface form: Burushaski language
Dené–Caucasian (controversial) → involvesLanguageIsolate → Burushaski ⓘ
subject surface form: Dené–Caucasian
Karimabad → localLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Gojal → otherLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Hussaini → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Lower Hunza → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Hunza District → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Hispar village → languageSpoken → Burushaski ⓘ
Hunza–Nagar District → languageSpoken → Burushaski ⓘ
Aliabad → localLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Gilgiti Shina → coexistsWith → Burushaski ⓘ
Nagar Valley → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Burusho people → language → Burushaski ⓘ
Hunza dialect → partOf → Burushaski ⓘ
this entity surface form: Burushaski language
Werchikwar dialect → partOf → Burushaski ⓘ
this entity surface form: Burushaski language
Werchikwar dialect → languageFamily → Burushaski ⓘ
Werchikwar dialect → languageIsolateOf → Burushaski ⓘ
this entity surface form: Burushaski (a language isolate)
Werchikwar dialect → hasAncestor → Burushaski ⓘ
Burúśaski → hasAlternativeName → Burushaski ⓘ
linguist Hermann Berger → fieldOfWork → Burushaski ⓘ
subject surface form: Hermann Berger
this entity surface form: Burushaski language
linguist Hermann Berger → studied → Burushaski ⓘ
subject surface form: Hermann Berger
this entity surface form: Burushaski language
Yasin Valley culture → language → Burushaski ⓘ
Ghizer District → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Attabad → languageSpoken → Burushaski ⓘ
Shishkat → hasPrimaryLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Shishkat village → languageSpoken → Burushaski ⓘ
GB → hasLocalLanguages → Burushaski ⓘ
Hunza → hasLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ
Gojal Valley → primaryLanguage → Burushaski ⓘ