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India (
Jammu and Kashmir;
Pakistan (
Azad Kashmir)
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Kashmir
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Indo-Iranian
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Dardic
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Perso-Arabic script,
Devanagari script
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Kashmiri (कॉशुर, کٲشُر
Koshur) is a
Dardic language spoken primarily in the valley of
Kashmir, a region situated in the
Jammu and Kashmir state of
India. It has about 4,391,000 speakers in
India. The 105,000 or so speakers in
Pakistan are mostly Immigrants from the Kashmir Valley to Pakistan and include only a few speakers residing in border villages in the
Neelum District of Azad Kashmir. Kashmiri belongs to the geographical linguistic sub-grouping called
Dardic part of the Indo-European Language Family . It is one of the
23 scheduled languages of
India.
It is a
V2 word order language. Kashmiri has remained a spoken language up to the present times, though some manuscripts were written in the past in the
Sharada script, and then in
Perso-Arabic script. Currently, Kashmiri is written in either the
Perso-Arabic script (with some modifications) or the
Devanagari script. Among languages written in the Perso-Arabic script, Kashmiri is practically unique, in that it regularly indicates all vowel sounds
Kashmiri is the state official language of Jammu and Kashmir and also one of the national languages of India. Some Kashmiri speakers use
English or
Urdu as a second language. In the past few decades, Kashmiri was introduced as a subject at the university and the colleges of the valley. At present, attempts are on for inclusion of Kashmiri in school curriculum.
In 1919
George Abraham Grierson wrote that “Kashmiri is the only one of the Dardic languages that has a literature”. Kashmiri literature dates back to over 750 years, this is, more-or-less, the age of many a modern literature including English.
There are two online newspapers in Kashmiri
Koshur Akhbar
and
Sangarmal.
The best online newspaper is GreaterKashmir.com
Further Information
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