Sunday, 18 December 2011

Burushaski

The Burushaski or Burushko accent (Urdu: بروشسکی burū́šaskī), is a accent abstract (that is, not accepted to be accompanying to any added accent of the world).1 It is announced by some 87,000 (as of 2000) Burusho bodies in the Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, and Ishkoman valleys, and some genitalia of the Gilgit valley, in Gilgit–Baltistan in Pakistan and by about 300 Burusho bodies in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India.23 Added names for the accent are Brugaski, Kanjut (Kunjoot), Verchikwār, Boorishki, Brushas (Brushias), and Miśa:ski.

Today Burushaski contains abundant loanwords from Urdu (including English, Persian and Sanskrit words accustomed via Urdu), and from neighbouring Dardic languages such as Shina and Khowar, as able-bodied as a few from Turkic languages, and from the adjoining Sino-Tibetan accent Balti, and Wakhi and Pashto.4 However, the aboriginal cant charcoal abundantly intact. The Dardic languages additionally accommodate ample numbers of loanwords from Burushaski.

There are three aberrant dialects, alleged afterwards the capital valleys: Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin (also alleged Werchikwār). The accent of Yasin is anticipation to be the atomic afflicted by acquaintance with adjoining languages and is about beneath agnate to the added two than those are to anniversary other; about all three dialects are mutually intelligible.

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