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Grammar. Burushaski is a double-marking language and word order is generally subject–object–verb . Nouns in Burushaski are divided into four genders: human masculine, human feminine, countable objects, and uncountable ones (similar to mass nouns ). The assignment of a noun to a particular gender is largely predictable.
Burusho people. The Burusho, or Brusho ( Burushaski: بُرُشݸ, burúśu [6] ), also known as the Botraj, [7] [8] are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, [9] with a tiny minority of around 350 Burusho people residing in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
The Urdu alphabet ( Urdu: اردو حروفِ تہجی, romanized : urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī) is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is derived from the Arabic script. It has official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa.
The Yeniseian languages ( / ˌjɛnɪˈseɪən / YEN-ih-SAY-ən; sometimes known as Yeniseic or Yenisei-Ostyak; [notes 1] occasionally spelled with - ss -) are a family of languages that are spoken by the Yeniseian people in the Yenisei River region of central Siberia. As part of the proposed Dené–Yeniseian language family, the Yeniseian ...
The Tocharian alphabet also has letters representing all of the remaining Sanskrit sounds, but these appear only in Sanskrit loanwords and are not thought to have had distinct pronunciations in Tocharian. There is some uncertainty as to actual pronunciation of some of the letters, particularly those representing palatalized obstruents (see below).
Baṛī ye ( Urdu: بَڑی يے, Urdu pronunciation: [ˈbəɽiː ˈjeː]; lit. "greater ye") is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indo-Iranian language alphabets based on it) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/ yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic, Thuluth ...
The predominant Indo-European language in the Caucasus is Armenian, spoken by the Armenians (circa 6.7 million speakers). The Ossetians, speaking the Ossetian language, form another group of around 700,000 speakers. Other Indo-European languages spoken in the Caucasus include Greek ( Pontic Greek ), Persian (including Tat Persian ), Kurdish ...
Pakistani Perso-Arabic alphabet. The below table is the Pakistani version of the Perso-Arabic alphabet for the Wakhi language.[1] This alphabet has also been derived from the alphabet of Dari (Persian). However, Urdu, Pakistan's national language, has been the source of letters for phonemes that don't exist in Persian.