Editing Burushaski (section)

== Classification ==
Attempts have been made to establish links between Burushaski and several different language families, although none has been accepted by a majority of [[linguist]]s.

Some hypotheses posit a genealogical relationship between Burushaski and the [[North Caucasian languages]], [[Kartvelian languages]],{{sfnp|Holst|2014|pp=15–16}} [[Yeniseian languages]] and/or [[Indo-European languages]], usually in proposed [[macrofamily|macrofamilies]]:
* The proposed but contended "[[Dené–Caucasian languages|Dené–Caucasian]]" macrofamily includes Burushaski alongside [[Basque language|Basque]], [[North Caucasian languages|North Caucasian]], [[Yeniseian languages|Yeniseian]], [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] and [[Na-Dene languages|Na-Dene]].<ref>[[John Bengtson]], ''Some features of Dene–Caucasian phonology (with special reference to Basque).'' Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain (CILL) 30.4: 33-54,</ref><ref>John Bengtson and V. Blazek, "Lexica Dene–Caucasica". Central Asiatic Journal 39, 1995, 11-50 & 161-164</ref>
* Another proposed family, known as "[[Karasuk languages|Karasuk]]",<ref>[[George van Driem]] (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region,'' Brill</ref> links Burushaski with Yeniseian.
* A relationship to the proposed "[[Indo-Hittite]] clade" of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European family]] and ancient [[Phrygian language|Phrygian]] has been suggested by [[Eric P. Hamp]] and {{ill|Ilija Čašule|mk|Илија Чашуле}}.<ref name=hamp2013>{{cite journal|last=Hamp|first=Eric P.|title=The Expansion of the Indo-European Languages: An Indo-Europeanist's Evolving View|journal=Sino-Platonic Papers|date=August 2013|volume=239|page=8|url=http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp239_indo_european_languages.pdf|access-date=5 April 2014}}</ref><ref>Casule, Ilija. 2003. Evidence for the Indo-European laryngeals in Burushaski and its genetic affiliation with Indo-European. ''The Journal of Indo-European Studies'' 31:1–2, pp 21–86.</ref><ref>Čašule, Ilija. 2012. [http://www.jies.org/DOCS/jies_index/Vol40.html Correlation of the Burushaski Pronominal System with Indo-European and Phonological and Grammatical Evidence for a Genetic Relationship.] ''The Journal of Indo-European Studies'' 40:1–2, pp 59 ''ff'', with review by Hamp, Huld, and Bengtson & Blazek</ref><ref>[http://www.clarkriley.com/JIES4012web/059-153Casule.pdf I. Čašule. Correlation of the Burushaski pronominal system with Indo-European and phonological and grammatical evidence for a genetic relationship]</ref> The various proposals linking Burushaski to Indo-[[Europe|European]] make divergent—or in the case of Čašule even contradictory—claims about the nature of the relationship, and are rejected by mainstream scholarship.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Alexander D. |year=2017 |chapter=Burushaski |editor=Lyle Campbell |title=Language isolates |pages=117–138 |series=Routledge Language Family Series |place=New York |publisher =Routledge}}</ref>
* A possible connection specifically to the [[North Caucasian languages]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jdbengt.net/biblio.htm|title=John D Bengtson|website=jdbengt.net|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref>