Eastern Burushaski

Developed Resources

Linux Keyboard Layout

• Documentation [1]
• Git Repository [2]

Corpus Materials

• Git Repository [3]

Grammar Documentation

• Basic grammatical structures with POS tags [4]

External Resources

Computational resources

• Online dictionary for English-Burushaski translation from Globse. Claims to have 209 words/phrases, but the dictionary is editable by anyone, so this may not be a reliable source.[5]
• Burushaski keyboard layout developed by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, a Linguist and Researcher at Khowar Academy Chitral[6]
  • MIT license
  • source code available online [7]

Dictionaries/phrasebooks/glossaries

• Basic Burushaski Vocabulary, Stephen R Willson [8]
  • Requested via ILL
• Basic wordlists from the Burushaski Language Documentation Project, a group supported by the University of Texas and led by Sadaf Munshi (Ph.D.)
  • animals [9]
  • body parts [10]
  • flowers and herbs [11]
  • kinship terms [12]
• Online dictionary [13]
  • Through Webonary.org and SIL International
  • Still in the trial stage, though it has ~3400 entries

Grammatical descriptions

• PhD Thesis by Noboru Yoshioka
  • Available online [14]
• The Burushaski Language by D.L.R. Lorimer
  • Introduction available on microfilm at Swarthmore?? [15]
  • Volume 1 available online [16]
    • unclear how much material included
  • Volume 2 available online [17]
    • unclear how much material included
    • many characters not rendered
• Work-in-progress grammar from the University of Texas group on the Hunza dialect
  • pdf available online [18]
  • The same group provides a brief orthography online [19]
• "A Typology of Verb Agreement in Burushaski," an article by Gregory D. S. Anderson and Randall Eggert published in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2001, Vol.24(2), p.235
  • All rights reserved, although full text appears to be available as a pdf online [20]
• "Case-marked clausal subordination in the Burushaski complex sentence." Article by Gregory D.S. Anderson, published 2002
  • PDF of a draft available online [21]

Scientific works

• Advances in Burushaski Linguistics by Jan Henrik Holst
  • Book review available online [22]
  • Partially viewable on Google Books [23]
  • Introduction available for download [24]
  • requested via ILL
• A Note On Split Ergativity in Burushaski by Étienne Tiffou and Yves-Charles Morin
  • Available online [25]
• A typology of verb agreement in Burushaski by Gregory Anderson and Randall Eggert
  • Available online [26]
• Languages of Northern Areas (Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2) by Peter C. Backstrom and Carl F. Radloff, published 1992.
  • A review of this and several other works is available on JSTOR [27]
  • The book itself is available for purchase on Amazon[28], and presumably could be found through an ILL. Unclear how much of this text is relevant to Burushaski.

Corpora

• Extensive collection of stories in all 4 dialects, with both audio recordings and linguistically analyzed transcripts. No license is listed, but all texts are available online and purportedly have been disseminated among the speaking community and archived at the University of Texas.
  • Hunza [29]
  • Nagar [30]
  • Srinagar [31]
  • Yasin [32]
  • Older, more extensive archive [33]
• Burushaski Language Resource at University of North Texas [34]
  • Contains 50 transcriptions [35] as well as lots of audio and video data.

Other

• Ethnologue [36]
• Burushaski : an extraordinary language in the Karakoram mountains, by Dick Grune.
  • Published 1998
  • Requested via ILL