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.

Dialects
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

Transcription
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 [ʐʲ]) (Berger 1998); "a fricative r, pronounced with the tongue in the retroflex ('cerebral') position" (apparently [ɻ̝]/[ʐ̞], 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.