Kashmiri language
| Kashmiri | |
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| کٲشُر, कॉशुर, 𑆑𑆳𑆯𑆶𑆫𑇀 | |
 The word "Koshur" in Perso-Arabic script, Sharada script and Devanagari script | |
| Pronunciation | [kəːʃur] |
| Native to | Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Region | Kashmir |
Native speakers | 6.7 million (2011 census)[1] |
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| Perso-Arabic script (contemporary, official status),[2] Devanagari script (contemporary),[2] Sharada script (ancient/liturgical)[2] | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  India |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ks |
| ISO 639-2 | kas |
| ISO 639-3 | kas |
| Glottolog | kash1277 |
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| Constitutionally recognised languages of India | |
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| Scheduled Languages | |
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Kashmiri (کٲشُر) is a language from the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages.[3] It is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley, in Indian-administered Kashmir, and also spoken in Neelam and Leepa valleys in Azad Kashmir, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.[4]
Kashmiri is one of 22 languages with official status in India.[5] In 2011, more than 6 million people knew it as their first language.[3]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ Kashmiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 3 Sociolinguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. 2005. ISBN 9783110184181. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- 1 2 George L. Campbell; Gareth King, Compendium of the World's Languages (Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2013), p. 492
- ↑ One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost, ed. Peter Austin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), p. 130
- ↑ "330 EIGHTH SCHEDULE [Articles 344 (1) and 351] Languages" (PDF). Government of India Ministry of External Affairs. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
Other websites
[change | change source]- The word Koshur written on manuscript Archived 2021-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
Kashmiri edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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