Burushaski Language

         The Burushaski language, also spelled Burushaki or Burushki, language spoken the Burusho Peoples  .It is estimated to have some 90,000 speakers. Burushaski is a linguistic isolate, a language whose genetic relationship to other languages is not yet clear. In this respect it is like Basque, a language spoken in the western Pyrenees of Spain and France.

Burushaki Other names

Other names for the language are Biltum, Khajuna, Kunjut, Brushaski, Burucaki, Burucaski, Burushaki, Burushki, Brugaski, Brushas, Werchikwar and Miśa:ski

Who are  Bursho  Peoples ?

              Bursho people  live in the Hunza valley , Nagar ,Chitral and in valleys of Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan ,as well as in Hari parbat , Jummu and Kashmir  India. Their population is estimated to be around 90,000  to100,000.

Smiling face on burusho people shows The huge hospitality

Writing Burushaki:

    Burushaski is  spoken rather than written language. Occasionally the Urdu alphabet is used, and there are some specific characters in unicode, but no fixed orthography exists[citation needed. Adu Wazir Shafi wrote a book Burushaski Razon using a Latin script.

Tibetan sources record a Bru-śa language of the Gilgit valley, which appears to have been Burushaski, whose script was one of five scripts used to write the extinct Zhang-Zhung language. Although Burushaski may once have been a significant literary language, no Bru-śa manuscripts are known to have survived.

Gallery Burushaki:

chipurson hunza Pakistan

Hunza Women working on handcraft

Balit fort Karim abad, hunza

Map of  Bursho lands.

Hunza valley ,Gilgit-baltistan pakistan

Yasin, Gilgit-baltistan Pakistan


Nagar, Gilgit-baltistan Pakistan

Hari parbat,  Srinagar india