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Buruśaaski Orthography and Keyboard

Buruśaaski orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuations of the Buruśaaski language. This particular orthography has been proposed and agreed upon by representatives of all three varieties of Buruśaaski of Hunza, Yasin and Nagar. The unique characters of Buruśaaski, mostly retroflexes and diacritic vowels have been colored in this document.

Buruśaaski Girminas is latin/Roman based keyboard developed for Buruśo Mahraka, and it is available for free.

Buruśaaski Orthography
How to use the keyboard (Desktop)
How to use the keyboard on touch devices (tablets, phones)


 

Typing characters with Buruśaaski Girminas Keyboard (Desktop, Laptop)

First of all, please click download link to download the Buruśaaski Girminas for your desktop or laptop.

For diacritic vowels with tilde, there is only one rule -- on your keyboard press tilde (~)  followed by your desired vowel.  The tilde is used for nasalized vowels in Buruśaski in very limited situations.                   


Vowels (tilde)
ã  
 ẽ
ĩ 
õ 
ũ 
Key Combinations
~   a
~ e
~ i
~ o
~ u 

For diacritic vowels with accute (◌́) just press Comma (,) followed by required vowels.                          


Vowels (Accute)
á  
 é
í 
ó
ú 
Key Combinations
,   a
, e
, i
, o
, u 

For diacritic long vowels instead of using macron (◌̄) just double the vowels.                          


Vowels (long)
aa
ee
ii
oo
uu 
Key Combinations
aa
ee
ii
oo
uu

Buruśaski Roman Orthography recommendation is to double the vowels.

Please follow the key combinations for the extra Buruśaski characters. All accented letters will be the output of comma + the required letters, and all the dot characters will be the output of dot + consonants.


Output
Ġ
ʰ
Input
dot + c
dot + d
dot + g dot + h
dot + s

Output
Ṭ 
Input
dot + n
dot + t
dot + y dot + z

Output
Ć
Ś
Input
comma + c
comma + s

For capitalization of the characters, use /Shif Key/ and then input the required key combinations with the same rule above. The rest of the alphabets are same as English..

 

Buruśaaski  orthography

Following is the detail Buruśaaski Latin/Roman based orthography, including Buruśaaski words and IPA pronunciation.

Alphabets

Bur

IPA

Alphabets

Bur

IPA

a

Baltit

a

aa

aamala

A:

e

epai

ɛ

ee

eemali

ɛ:

i

ikhar

i

ii

iilji

I:

o

opai

o

oo

oogirmin

O:

u

urdu

u

uu

uulikal

U:

ã / ẽ / ĩ / õ / ũ

gũll


ã / ẽ / ĩ / õ / ũ

p

pan

p

b

bar

b

d

dimanaas

d

t

terek

t

iki

ʈ

aaṅ

ɖ

k

katar 

k

g

Ganiś   

g

q

qau

q

ć

Ćillaas  

j

ja

c

capan

ts

at, c̣uk

ʈʂ

x

xakin

ġ

ġamu

ɣ

h

Hunza

h

s

sar 

s

z

zarar

z

apik

ʂ

akun

ʐ

ś

śoqum

ʃ

m

mall

m

n

Nagar 

n

phai

ŋ

l

lip

l

ll

llaman

ɫ̩

r

ruṅ, ruru

r

hl

Baʰt

 

w

wat

w

hr

Daʰrt


baý


y

Yasin

j

 

 

 

           
ch chan true chor early  
ćh ćhar sound, voice ćhap meat  
c̣h c̣hen sparrow c̣ham hungry  
kh kheen time khan fort  
ph phallo grain phariṣ duck  
th thap night thalla slowly  
ṭh Pațhan Pathan thak shake  

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Using the keyboard on touch devices

For android users, please download the Buruśaaski Girminas App from Play Store. Click the link or the icon below to download. For the users of other operating system, please read the instructions below.

 Please download here:  Buruśaaski Girminas

For iPhones and iPads, install the Keyman App from App Store. Once installed, go to the keyboard settings of keyman and search for the Buruśaaski Girminas. From the list, add Buruśaaski Girminas. Remember, there is no seperate iOS App. Keyman engine already includes Buruśaaski Girminas.

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