abstract:Burushaski Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh (Burushaski: بروشسکی burū́šaskī) is a language isolate spoken in northern Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. As of 2000, Burushaski was spoken by some 87,000 Burusho people in the Hunza–Nagar District, as well as northern Gilgit District and the Yasin and Ishkoman valleys of northern Ghizer District.