Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Many languages and dialects are spoken throughout this region, and many castes exist in it, of which only the most important can be mentioned. Their distribution seems to point to successive waves of conquest. The races are one and all believed to be Aryan, the people of Hunza and Nagyr presenting a strikingly pure type. Burishki, the language of the Yeshkuns, is spoken in the inaccessible Hunza, Nagyr, and Yasin valleys; Shina throughout Astor, Gilgit, Punial, and the lower part of the Ghizr valley; from the Indus valley through Gilgit to Ghizr the proportion of Shins varies from 90 to 35 per cent. Of the population ofi'

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