A Dravidian language spoken by the Brahui people in southeastern Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan, linguistically isolated from nearby languages.
From the Brahui people's own ethnonym. The language is classified as Dravidian (primarily spoken in southern India), which makes it a geographical and linguistic anomaly in the Indus Valley region.
Brahui is a linguistic time capsule—it's a South Indian language spoken 1,000+ miles north in Pakistan, suggesting ancient migrations that happened so long ago that neighboring languages completely changed around it.
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