| Also Known As: Kaschemiri,Cashmeeree,Keshuri,Cashmiri,Kacmiri,Keshur,Kashmiri
Description:
Kashmiri (कॉशुर, کٲشُر Koshur) belongs to the Dardic languages and is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It had about 5,554,496 speakers in India according to the Census of 2001. Most of the 105,000 speakers or so in Pakistan are mostly immigrants from the Kashmir Valley and include only a few speakers residing in border villages in Neelum District. Kashmiri belongs to the geographical linguistic sub-grouping called Dardic part of the Indo-European Language Family. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.
Kashmiri is an official language of Jammu and Kashmir, along with Urdu, and is 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 in the universities and the colleges of the valley. It has now been made a compulsory subject in all the schools of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmiri is rich in Persian words.
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..... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Kashmiri Language Speakers
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21.767890, 78.871761, India
49.837982, 105.820313, Asia</googlemap>
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