Appendix:Burushaski comparative vocabulary list

The following comparative word list of 9 Burushaski dialects is from Backstrom (1992). 206 words are provided.

Burushaski is spoken in northern Pakistan.

The dialects in this list are:

• Hussainabad, Hunza District
• Murtazabad, Hunza District
• Haiderabad, Hunza District
• Ganish, Hunza District
• Nazimabad, Hunza District (Gojal)
• Uyum Nagar, Nagar District
• Hoper, Nagar District
• Yasin Bala, Central Yasin
• Thui, Northern Yasin

In this list, Backstrom's transcription in the Americanist Phonetic Alphabet has been converted to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Notes

• /ỵ/: This phoneme has various pronunciations, all of which are rare sounds cross-linguistically. Descriptions include: "a voiced retroflex sibilant with simultaneous dorso-palatal narrowing" (apparently ) (Berger 1998); "a fricative r, pronounced with the tongue in the retroflex ('cerebral') position" (apparently /, a sound which also occurs in Standard Chinese, written r in Pinyin) (Morgenstierne 1945); and "a curious sound whose phonetic realizations vary from a retroflex, spirantized glide to a retroflex velarized spirant" (Anderson forthcoming). In any case, it does not occur in the Yasin dialect, and in Hunza and Nager it does not occur at the beginning of words.

• Appendix:Kusunda word list
• Appendix:Kenaboi word list

• Backstrom, Peter C. 1992. Burushaski. In Peter C. Backstrom and Carla F. Radloff (eds.), Sociolinguistics survey of Pakistan, volume 2: Languages of northern areas, 31-54. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, and Summer Institute of Linguistics.