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undeciphered scripts |
alternative scripts |
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Burushaski is a language isolate unrelated to any other languages. It is spoken by about 50,000 people in the Hunza and Yasin valleys in northern Pakistan and Kashmir. A different dialect of the language is spoken in each of the valleys, though they are largely mutually intelligible. The language is also known as Biltum, Brushaski, Burucaki, Burucaski, Burushaki, Burushki, Khajuna or Kunjut.
Until recently, Burushaski was rarely written. A number of texts have been written by native speakers for researchers using a version of the Urdu alphabet. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the Roman alphabet have also been used to write texts in the language.
Information about the Burushaski language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burushaski_language
http://www.few.vu.nl/~dick/Summaries/Languages/Burushaski.pdf (PDF)
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