Word: burushaski
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Burushu people in the mountainous north corner of India and round out an exhaustive study of their language, customs, origin. Unruly, boisterous, athletic, the 17,600 Burushu are not much like their lackadaisical neighbors of India's plains and valleys. They speak a queer, syntactically complex language called Burushaski, with no less than four genders. Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer believes himself the only white man with a working knowledge of Burushaski, knows of no other human tongue to which it is related...
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