| Spoken in the [[Yasin Valley]], [[Nagar Valley]] and [[Hunza Valley]] of [[Gilgit-Baltistan]] andin [[Hari Parbat]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]]Pakistan. Linked to [[Languages of the Caucasus|Caucasian languages]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jdbengt.net/biblio.htm|title=John D Bengtson|website=jdbengt.net|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]],<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> and [[Na-Dene languages]]<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> in various proposals.
