Re: Afro-Asiatic

> >[Alexander]
> > BTW just now I have taken notice of the fact that the best book on South

Asian

> > ethnology I have, "Etnogenes i etnicheskaya istoriya narodov Yuzhnoi Asii"

is

> > edited by Sergei Arutyunov. The book is really good in many aspects but only

6

> > lines are devoted to Burushaski.
> >
>[Gerry]
> Also, if you have the text edited by Sergei, could you possibly send me
> the 6 lines?
>

These 6 lines are from the article by M.K.Kudryavtsev "Severnye oblasti Yuzhnoi
Asii" (translation from Russian):

"To the North from Gilgit in the Yasin region Burishi live, who are well known
mainly due to the fact that their language, Burishki or Burushaski, has not find
yet a certain place in existing lunguistic classifications. The number of
Burishi is estimated from 20000 to 50000 people. Burishi are Muslims - Shiites
and Ismailites."

Alexander