burushashki

Ditching the Guidebook: My First Trip to Northern Pakistan

March 28, 2010
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Within minutes I’m surrounded by local women from the village. Usually I can hold my own in Urdu conversation, but many of these women speak Burushaski, a language that is unrelated to any other language in Pakistan. Linguists class it as a ‘language isolate,’ and there are estimated to be some 87,000 speakers living in [...]

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