Interlinear-glossed text of the extended edition of Laila Khan reciting "Baadil Jamaal" in the Hunza dialect. This popular story tells of the love between a prince named Gakase Peibuluk and a fairy named Baadil Jamaal. Transcription in Burushaski with translations and analysis in English.

Interlinear-glossed text of Laila Khan reciting "A Black and White Thread Ball" in the Hunza dialect. In this popular story a young shepherd abandons his duties in order to court a girl who was born out of gold and silver to poor parents. Transcription done in Burushaski with translations in English.

Transcription of the recording of Raja Abdul Hameed, a speaker of Nagar Burushaski, narrating a personal account.

Transcription and free English translation of the recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan, a speaker of Srinagar Burushaski, reciting the story of Shiri Badat. Shiri Badat was a legendary king of Gilgit who is claimed to have been very cruel and a cannibal who ate human babies. The story gives an account of how Shiri Badat's minister allied with a Persian prince, who married Shiri Badat's daughter, to have him killed. Khan claims that his ancestors are the progeny of the marriage between the Persian prince and Shiri Badat's daugher, whose name was Shamligas.

Transcription of Ramazan Ali describing the names of the months and seasons in the Nagar dialect of Burushaski. Translated into English.

Transcription of Abdullah explaining Old Utensils used in the community. Transcription of Nagar Burushaski with translations in English.

Transcription of Ruqayya Bano reciting a recipe for "Chhap Shuro," a popular recipe for a meat pizza. Transcription of Nagar Burushaski with translations in English.

Transcription of Ruqayya Bano reciting a recipe for "Mul," a popular recipe for porridge. Transcription of Nagar Burushaski with translations in English.

Transcription of Ruqayya Bano reciting a recipe for "Shuwanchole Hoy," a popular recipe for vegetables. Transcription in the Nagar dialect of Burushaski with English translation.

Transcription and free English translation of the recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan, a speaker of Srinagar Burushaski, narrating the story of a crazy man. Among the audiences present during the event is Khan's daughter, Salma. The story is more of a personal account as the narrator has witnessed the events during his lifetime.

Transcription of Abdullah reciting "Yaa Nimas," a personal account on fighting a bear. with translations in English. The story appears in the Nagar dialect of Burushaski.

Transcription of The Sea Sand Pot with translations in English.

Transcription of Ali Raza reciting "Intelligent Woman," a popular story about a woman and an arranged marriage in Nagar Burushaski, with translations in English.

Transcription and free English translation of the recording of Ali Raza reciting "Gul Zaada Gushpur" -- a story of a prince named "Gul Zaada". Ali Raza is a speaker of the Nagar dialect of Burushaski.

Transcription of Shari Bano on a Swing with translations in English. Shari Bano would swing on the swing of a juniper tree and sing songs and recite poetry.

Transcription and translation of the recording of Dawar Muneem reciting “Shon Gukur” in the Hunza dialect. This is a popular story about a shaman/minister in Baltit (Karimabad), that gave the Hunza Burushos important wisdom given to him by the fairies that blinded him

Transcription of Gulzar Bibi and Gulzar Chachi reciting "Adam and Eve," a popular story about the genesis of people in Srinagar Burushaski, with translations in English.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with Prof. Khawaja Rehman (linguist) and two participants of linguistic planning workshop for native speakers held at the Forum For Languages Initiative (FLI), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi at the Forum for Languages Initiative (FLI), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with Zafar Iqbal, a Yasin Burushaski speaker.

Recording of Shah Rahim Khan discussing different festivals celebrated in Yasin. He gives his narrative in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski.

Recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan reciting "Maghlot ke Girkits" ('weasel and rat') in the Srinagar dialect. In this popular story two boys are born conjoined, and are separated by a knife. The two brothers are raised by two separate clans, always meeting in constant contention with each other, giving them the nicknames Maghlot ('weasel') and Girkits ('rat') for their physical and behavioral traits. Knowing the brothers would create instability, the king separates the kingdom into two halves, creating the divide between the Hunza and the Nagar people.

This study is about voice system in Burushaski, focusing especially on the middle voice (MV) construction. It claims that the [dd-] verbal prefix is an overt morphological middle marker for MV constructions, while the [n-] verbal prefix is a morphological marker for passive voice. The data primarily come from the Hunza dialect of Burushaski, but analogous phenomena can be observed in other dialects. This research is based on a corpus of 120 dd-prefix verbs. This research has showed that position {-2} on the verb template is occupied by voice-marker in Burushaski. The author argues that the middle marker is a semantic category of its own and that it is clearly distinguished from the reflexive marker in this language. The analysis of the phenomenon in this study only comes from the dialect of Hunza Burushaski, so a lot of research remains to be done on the other three dialects of Burushaski: Yasin dialect, Nagar dialect and Srinagar dialect.

This thesis was written to explore the structural case patterns of the Burushaski sentence and to examine the different participant coding systems which appear between noun marking and verb agreement. Verb suffixes follow nominative alignment patterns of agreement, while the verb prefix agrees with the affected argument as determined by semantic relations, as opposed to syntactic ones. The agent noun phrase is directly marked when highly active or volitional, suggesting a system of agent marking on the noun phrase and nominative alignment on the verb suffix. Nominative alignment also allows for a less marked presence of passive voice. Burushaski's agent marking is not entirely consistent; however, its nominative alignment is consistent. The conclusion is that Burushaski is not an ergative language at all.