Burushaski

From: Max Dashu
Message: 69848
Date: 2012-06-21

Ilija Casule of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, says that a language spoken by about 90,000 people in a remote area of Pakistan is Indo-European in origin.

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155454736/pakistans-burushaski-language-finds-new-relatives

"the vocabulary that corresponds with Indo-European is core vocabulary, names of body parts, basic verbs, basic adjectives and also grammatical endings... And it corresponds systematically. That's the most important part. Every word you find has to have a systematic correspondence with all the rest of Indo-European."

Thoughts?

Max Dashu

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