Burushaski · language isolate

Burushaski

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Burushaski (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living language isolate.

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Speakers
130K (130,000)
ISO 639-3
bsk
Glottocode
buru1296

Language isolate of Hunza, Nagar and Yasin in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Proposed links (Yeniseian, Indo-European) are not accepted. Start date is nominal; unwritten before the 19th century.

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