Directory of Burushaski Resources

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Burushaski is a language isolate spoken by approximately 60,000 people primarily in Pakistan and parts of India. It is also known as Brushaski, Burushaki, Burucaki, Burushki, Burucaski, Biltum, Khajuna and Kunjut.

Resources in This Category

• Burushaski: A Language of Pakistan

  http://www.ethnologue.com/language/BSK
  Sociolinguistic and bibliographic information on Burushaski.

• Burushaski: An Extraordinary Language in the Karakoram Mountains

  http://www.few.vu.nl/~dick/Summaries/Languages/Burushaski.pdf
  Online version of a book containing fairly detailed grammatical notes on Burushaski, by Dick Grune (available in PostScript or PDF format).

• Linguist List - Burushaski

  http://linguistlist.org/issues/5/5-221.html
  Short bibliography on the Burushaski language, based on responses to a newsgroup request.

• The Burushaski Language

  http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Burushaski.htm
  Short overview of where the language is spoken, followed by a sample text with translation into English.

 

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