Kashmiri
language from the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages
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Summary
Kashmiri is a natural language[1]. Kashmiri draws 2,821 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #88 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3], Pakistan[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Dardic[6]
- Writing system: Persian alphabet[7], Devanagari[8], Sharada[9]
- Part of: Schedule languages of India[10]
- Wikimedia language code: ks[11], ks-arab[12], ks-deva[13], ks-shrd[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Kashmiri language[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6,900,000[16]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[18]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Kashmiri[19]
- Native label: کٲشُر[20], कॉशुर[21], 𑆑𑆳𑆯𑆶𑆫𑇀[22]
- Indigenous to: Jammu and Kashmir[23], Azad Kashmir[24]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KAS[25]
- Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational[26]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[27], V2 word order[28], subject–verb–object[29]
- Has grammatical gender: feminine[30], masculine[31]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Kashmiri-language films[32]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Kashmiri-language music[33]
Why It Matters
Kashmiri has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Kashmiri is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]