Kashmiri

Also known as Koshur, Kashmiri language

language from the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages

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Kashmiri is a language spoken primarily in the Kashmir region, belonging to the Dardic subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages. It matters because it represents an important linguistic and cultural heritage of the Kashmiri people and serves as a window into the broader Indo-Aryan language family.

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Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: Dardic
Country: Pakistan
Image: Koshur.svg

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indigenous to: Azad Kashmir
Wikimedia language code: ks-shrd
writing system: Sharada
native label: 𑆑𑆳𑆯𑆶𑆫𑇀
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6900000
topic's main category: Category:Kashmiri language
linguistic typology: subject–verb–object
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KAS
P10369: Pi
has grammatical gender: masculine

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Kashmiri ( English: /kæʃˈmɪəri/ kash-MEER-ee), also known by its endonym Koshur (Kashmiri: کٲشُر (Perso-Arabic, Official Script), pronounced [kəːʃur]), is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic branch spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Kashmir Valley and surrounding hills of the Indian-administrated union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, over half the population of that territory. Kashmiri has split ergativity and the unusual verb-second word order.

Since 2020, it has been made an official language of Jammu and Kashmir along with Dogri, Hindi, Urdu and English. Kashmiri is also among the 22 scheduled languages of India.

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