Burushaski

Burushaski is spoken by 40,000 people living in the mountainous regions of northwestern Kashmir. It is of special interest to philologists in that it appears to be completely unrelated to any other language of the area, or for that matter to any other language of the world. It is probably a remnant of some prehistoric language community, all but obliterated by successive Dravidian and Indo-European invasions. There is an alphabet for this language, but its use is not frequent or standardized. The text above is merely a phonetic transcription of the spoken language.