A language of stone, sun & sky.
Burushaski is spoken by ~120,000 people in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of northern Pakistan, and is unrelated to any other living language.
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Searchable words and community phrases in academic and ASCII script, with audio recorded by native speakers.
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Two scripts, one language.
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