Burushaski
isolate language spoken by Burushos in northern Pakistan and India
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Summary
Burushaski is a natural language[1]. Burushaski draws 2,211 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #98 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Burusho people[3]
- Country: Pakistan[4], India[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: human language[7]
- Writing system: Urdu orthography[8], Latin script[9], Arabic script[10]
- Commons category: Burushaski language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: bsk[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Burushaski[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 55,000[14]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[15]
- Used by: Burusho people[16]
- Native label: بُرُݸشسکݵ[17]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[18]
- Indigenous to: Kashmir[19], Hunza District[20], Nagar District[21], Ghizer District[22], Gilgit District[23], Jammu and Kashmir[24]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BSK[25]
- Ethnologue language status: 6a Vigorous[26]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[27], language isolate[28], ergative–absolutive language[29]
- Has grammatical gender: human masculine[30], human feminine[31], non-human 1[32], non-human 2[33]
Why It Matters
Burushaski has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Burushaski is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]