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Today Burushaski contains numerous Loanwords from Urdu and a few from neighbouring Dardic Languages such as Khowar and Shina , but the original vocabulary remains largely intact. The Dardic languages also contain large numbers of loan words from Burushaski. CLASSIFICATION Attempts have been made to establish a genealogic relationship between Burushaski and Sumerian , Basque , the Caucasian , Dravidian , and Indo European in particular a relationship with a " Paleo-Balkan " group ( Phrygian and Thracian ), as well as Balto-Slavic , was proposed by Ilija Casule at Macquarie University Language Families ; Burushaski has also traditionally been part of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis, along with Yeniseian and Sino-Tibetan . However, none these efforts have met with general acceptance. Recently George van Driem at Leiden University revived links between Burushaski and Yeniseian in a language family he calls '' Karasuk ''. He believes the Burusho took part in the migration out of Central Asia that resulted in the Indo-European conquest of the Indian Sub-continent , while other Karasuk peoples migrated northwards to become the Yenisei. These claims have recently been picked up by linguist Roger Blench . LITERATURE There are three dialects of Burushaski: those used in Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin. The dialect of Yasin is thought to be the most pure (least affected by Contact With Neighboring Languages ), but the literary and most popular dialect is that of Hunza. The language was seldom written for centuries; today it uses a modified version of the Arabic Script , and Partawi Shah has written poetry in Burushaski. Tibet an sources record a ''Bru-sá'' language of the Gilgit valley, which appears to have been Burushaski. The ''Bru-sá'' are credited with bringing the Bön religion to Tibet and Central Asia, and their script is alleged to have been the ancestor of the Tibetan Alphabet . Thus Burushaski may once have been a significant Literary Language . However, no ''Bru-sá'' manuscripts are known to have survived. The Burushaski Research Academy submitted the first volume of their ''Burushaski-Urdu Dictionary'' to print on 31 October 2005 . PHONOLOGY There are various Phoneme inventories attributed to Burushaski by different scholars.
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