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Kashmiri
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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

India, Pakistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Not Available

Interesting Facts

  • Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
  • Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.

Similar To

Hindi and Urdu Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

44
Rank: 24 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

17
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

27
Rank: 17 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Perso-Arabic script

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Assalām ‘alaikum

Thank You

शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)

How Are You?

तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)

Good Night

शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)

Good Evening

-9999

Good Afternoon

Hach t'ochoktiya

Good Morning

Hach ch'i

Please

-9999

Sorry

माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)

Bye

Khuda hāfiz

I Love You

be chus che seth mohabat karaan

Excuse Me

वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kashtawari

Where They Speak

India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Poguli

Where They Speak

Pogul and Paristan valleys

How Many People Speak

Not Available
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Rambani

Where They Speak

India

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.60 million
Rank: 69 (Overall)
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

Not Available
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

5.42 million
Rank: 64 (Overall)
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
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Native Name

कॉशुर / كٲشُر

Alternative Names

Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur

French Name

kashmiri

German Name

Kaschmiri

Pronunciation

[kəːʃur]

Ethnicity

Kashmiris or koshur

History

Origin

12th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Kashmiri

Language Position

Not Available
1 120
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Signed Forms

Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ks

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kas

ISO 639 2/B

kas

ISO 639 3

kas

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

kash1277

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Kashmiri

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Kashmiri Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Kashmiri Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Kashmiri. Kashmiri phonology gives Kashmiri vowels and Kashmiri consonants. There are 17 vowels and 27 consonants in Kashmiri language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Kashmiri is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Kashmiri language is given in detail in this section.

All Kashmiri countries

Want to explore all Kashmiri countries? About Kashmiri language serves you with all Kashmiri Speaking Countries. Countries that use Kashmiri as official language are called as Kashmiri countries.

  • Countries that use Kashmiri as their National Language are: India, Pakistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Kashmiri as second language are: Kashmiri is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Kashmiri greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Kashmiri Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Kashmiri language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Kashmiri language.Learn Kashmiri greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Assalām ‘alaikum
  • Thank you: शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  • Good Morning: Hach ch'i
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon: Hach t'ochoktiya

All Kashmiri Language Codes

Get to know all Kashmiri language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Kashmiri Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.