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The Burusho (also Brusho, Botraj and Hunzas) are an ethnolinguistic group native to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, with a small minority residing in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Their language, Burushaski, has been classified as a language isolate. The region inhabited by the Burusho people is traditionally known as Brushal.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burusho people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.