Burusho Women In The Hunza Valley, Pakistan
Burusho may refer to: * Burusho people or Burusho, are the ethnic group of people majority in Hunza and Upper Chitral in Pakistan * Burushaski language, spoken by the Burusho people in Hunza {{Disambiguation the people mainly from Hunza,Nagar,upper chitral and Yasin people were called burusho the speak their own language named Burushaski ...
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Burusho People
The Burusho, or Brusho, also known as the Botraj, are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, as well as in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Their language, Burushaski, has been classified as a language isolate. Although their origins are unknown, it is claimed that the Burusho people "were indigenous to northwestern India and were pushed higher into the mountains by the movements of the Indo-Aryans, who traveled southward sometime around 1800 B.C." History Prior to the modern era, the area in which most Burusho now live was part of the independent state of Chitral. The state was a hereditary monarchy, controlled by the Karur dynasty, and headed by a ''mir'' (a title usually translated as king). In 1947, it became part of Pakistan. The construction of the Karakoram Highway during the 1970s brought more extensive contact with the outside world. Many traders, preachers, tourists, and others ha ...
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