BURUSHASKI PRIMER

Let us read and hear BURUSHASKI. You can read this primer by clicking this link. Alternately you may use:  DOWNLOAD LISTEN, NARRATION IN BACKGROUND 
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SURVEY OF BURUSHAKI STUDIES

SUMMARY OF RESEARCHERS

BURUSHASKI ALPHABETS: Target no d(6) of HDF- Preservation of language

RECOMMENDATIONS:

1.    In a previous POST I reproduced "BURUSHASKI BÃSE HARPUTZ" from the publication compiled by my late father. I do not rule out a natural affinity for this compilation as the author is my own father, but I would request the readers to go to the reference material given below and see for themselves which version conforms to "IPA" (International Phonetic Alphabets) and more relevant to present-day mass communication needs.

To see please click burushaski-primer, U-TUBE, U-TUBE-II, LATEST FROM BURUSHASKI MARAKA, BOOROSHASKI QAIDA

2. I have not dealt with its relevance to the three other languages viz. 'Guveesky', 'Shina' and 'Berisky". I would request other young researchers to see if "IPA" (and alphabets adopted by Haji Qudratullah Beg) covers all aspects of these languages of Hunza as well. BURUSHO MARAKA published a new primer titled 'Alif Ba' in January 2023.

3. When I try to trace the history (in chronological order), I can find the following attempts (I am sure there may be many more but my knowledge is limited):

1.    Dialects of Tribes of the Hindu Khush, from Colonel Biddulph's Work on the Subject (Corrected)

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
New Series, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan., 1884), pp. 74-119

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Article Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25196981
TRIBES OF THE HINDOO KOOSH by Captain John Biddulph (Later Colonel)- 1876
2. On the Ethnographical Basis of Language, with Special Reference to the Customs and Language of Hunza: CUSTOM AND LANGUAGE OF HUNZA
Leitner, G.W. 1889. The Hunza and Nagyr Hand-book. Being an Introduction to a Knowledge of the Language, Race, and Countries of Hunza, Nagyr, and a Part of Yasin. Calcutta

Leitner, G.W. 1889. “La langue, la religion et les moeurs des habitants du hounza.” Paris: Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Comptes Rendus des Seances de l’Année 1889 4/17:350-54
Leitner, G.W. 1890. “On the Sciences of Language and Ethnography. With General Reference to the Language and Customs of the People of Hunza.” Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 23:109-22
Leitner, G.W. 1891. “On the Ethnographical Basis of Language. With Special Reference to the Customs and Language of Hunza.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20:204-10

3.Lorimer, David L.R. 1932. “A Burushaski Text from Hunza.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies 4:505-31  

THE BURUSHASKI LANGUAGE

BY LT. COL. D. L. R. LORIMER

VOL. III

VOCABULARIES AND INDEX

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