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About Kashmiri Language



Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
-

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
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Alphabets
44 24

Phonology

How Many Vowels
17 14

How Many Consonants
27 17

Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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
سہا مسا

Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya

Good Morning
Hach ch'i

Please
مهربانی کر

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
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 2
Poguli

Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys

How Many People Speak
6,100,000.00 43

Dialect 3
Rambani

Where They Speak
India

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00 36

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.60 million 69

Speaking Population
0.05 % 59

Native Speakers
5.42 million 64

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 51

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
23 21

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
kas

Glottocode
kash1277

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
-

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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.

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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.

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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: سہا مسا
  • 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.

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