Kashmiri, also known by its endonym Koshur, 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-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2011 estimate, native speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Kashmiri: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) RegionKashmir (Kashmir Valley and surrounding areas of Jammu and Kashmir, parts of northern Azad Kashmir) 2 Classification
Language Kind Official StatusWikipedia 'Kashmiri language': 'Since 2020, it has been made an official language of Jammu and Kashmir along with Dogri, Hindi, Urdu and English'; checked 2026-09-27. Connections
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Kashmiri is occasionally romanized, but its official scripts are Perso-Arabic (Jammu and Kashmir) and Devanagari (used in India); recorded here for the Latin-based transliteration convention used in linguistic literature.
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Source Wikipedia: Kashmiri LanguageLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Kashmiri (English: 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.
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1. Glottolog: Kashmiri (Glottolog languoid kash1277)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Kashmiri Language
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Kashmiri (English: 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.
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After Hindi, Kashmiri is the second fastest growing language of India, followed by Meitei (Manipuri) as well as Gujarati in the third place, and Bengali in the fourth place, according to the 2011 census of India.
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Kashmir (Kashmir Valley and surrounding areas of Jammu and Kashmir, parts of northern Azad Kashmir)
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Indo-Iranian
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Indo-Aryan
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Kashmiri first appeared in writing during the 8th century AD in the Sharda alphabet, which is still used in religious ceremonies by Kashmiri Pandits.
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