What is Burushaski?
{{Infobox language | familycolor = Isolate | family = [[Language isolate]] | name = Burushaski | states = [[Pakistan]] | region = [[Gilgit–Baltistan]] | speakers = 300,000 in Pakistan <!--# immigrants in India unknown--> | date = 2023 | ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Burushaski script in Roman, Perso-Arabic characters okayed|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1734892|website=Dawn News|date=24 Nov 2023}}</ref> | ethnicity = [[Burusho people]] | iso3 = bsk | dia1 = Hunza–Nagar | dia2 = Yasin (Werchikwar) | map = Burshaski-lang.png | mapcaption = Area of Burushaski speakers | nativename = بروشسکی - Burū́šaskī }} '''Burushaski''' (بروشسکی - Burū́šaskī) is a [[language isolate]] spoken by some 300,000 Burusho people in the [[Hunza]], [[Nagar]], [[Yasin]], [[Chitral]], and [[Gilgit]] valleys of [[Pakistan|Northern Pakistan]]. It is also spoken by some 300 immigrants in [[Srinagar]], [[Indian-administered Kashmir]]. Other names for the language are ''Kanjut (Kunjoot), Werchikwār, Boorishki, Brushas (Brushias), Biltum, Khajuna, Werchikwar and Miśa:ski.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Burushaski|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp|access-date=2023-11-24|website=Ethnologue}}</ref> Today Burushaski contains many [[Loanword|loanwords]] from [[Urdu]] (including English words received via Urdu) and from neighbouring [[Dardic languages]] such as [[Khowar]] and [[Shina]], as well as a few from [[Turkic languages]] and from the neighboring Sino-Tibetan language [[Balti language|Balti]], but the original vocabulary remains largely intact. The Dardic languages also contain large numbers of loanwords from Burushaski. There are three dialects, named after the main valleys: Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin (also called Werchikwār). The dialect of Yasin is thought to be the least affected by contact with neighboring languages and is generally less similar to the other two than those are to each other;