Consider this: Out of a population of around 12.5 million in Jammu and Kashmir, there are just 350 Burushaski speakers. But the language is spoken by around 100,000 people in the Hunza, Nagar, and ...
The picturesque valleys of northern Pakistan are the cradles of many strange languages and cultures. The languages spoken here — virtually little explored just like these valleys —include Balti, Shina ...
Robert Siegel talks to professor Ilija Casule of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research shows that a language spoken by about 90,000 people in a remote area of Pakistan is ...
Spoken by a small minority in Kashmir and in Gilgit-Baltistan, Burushaski is a rare and fascinating isolated language In Kashmir, the speakers of Burushaski are said to be the descendants of a tribal ...
A first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, 'Hun Dan: An Echo of a Dirge' was exclusively screened at the Islamabad Club cinema this weekend. The event drew a large gathering of ...
It's like discovering a distant cousin, a really distant cousin. It's like learning that someone you had barely heard of is actually part of the family. In this case, the family is the Indo-European ...
The picturesque valleys of northern Pakistan are the cradles of many strange languages and cultures. The languages spoken here — virtually little explored just like these valleys —include Balti, Shina ...