The most dominant of all Kashmir languages is the native Kashmiri language. Other common languages of Kashmir valley are Urdu, Hindi and English. The following lines provide more information about the major languages spoken in Kashmir: Kashmiri Majority of the population in Kashmir speaks.
Language. Languages in Jammu & Kashmir 2011 Census of India. The most widely spoken language is Kashmiri, the mother tongue of 53% of the population according to the 2011 census.
In 2020 the Parliament of India passed a bill to make Kashmiri the authority language of Jammu and Kashmir alongside Dogri, Hindi, English, and Urdu. Kashmiri is additionally among the 22 booked dialects of India.
Hindi is a derivative of Sanskrit with Devnagri Script while Urdu is a derivative of Persian language with a Persian Script. Both the languages originated in India. Kashmiri is a different language which currently has a Persian script but it's actual script used to be Sharada.
Kashmiri is like English, Dutch, and German! Here is another sentence that makes it clear that English and Kashmiri are different from Hindi and Farsi.
What happened when a tourist asked Kashmiri kids to explain Aazadi
How do you say hello in Kashmiri?
Hello – the most basic greeting. It's always helpful to know how this is said. – Assalam 'alaikum, if you are talking to Muslim. – Namaskar, if you are talking to Hindu.
"Western Punjabi" or "Lahnda" (لہندا, lit. 'western') is the name given to the diverse group of Punjabi varieties spoken in the majority of Pakistani Punjab, the Hazara region, most of Azad Kashmir and small parts of Indian Punjab such as Fazilka.
The largest community within the Kashmiri Hindus are the Kashmiri Pandits (Kashmiri Brahmins), who are divided into several gotras, such as the priests (gor or bhasha Bhatta), astrologers (Zutshi), and workers (Karkun).
Kashmiri is a Dardic language, under the North-West Indo Aryan languages, so the closest languages to Kashmiri will be other Dardic languages like *Shina, Khowar, Pashayi and Kalasha*.
The POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) is officially separated into two sections known in official languages as Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. 'Azad Jammu and Kashmir' is also acknowledged as Azad Kashmir in Pakistan.
"The Kashmiri language is fading from daily life as young people turn to English, Urdu, and Hindi. Can a mother tongue survive if its children stop speaking it?" Kashmiri Has 7.1 Million Speakers. It's Still a Dying Language.
Question 1 What is the capital of Jammu Kashmir? Answer- Srinagar is the summer capital of Jammu Kashmir and Jammu is the winter capital of Jammu & Kashmir. Srinagar is located along the banks of Jhelum River in the Valley of Kashmir.
For an extended period, Dogri was classified as a dialect of Punjabi, obscuring its independent linguistic and cultural identity. This paper is dedicated to an in-depth examination of the morphological and phonetic disparities that establish Dogri as a distinct language worthy of official recognition.
Kashmiri (English: /kæʃˈmɪəri/ 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 ...
Article 370 is a true story of Kashmir's tortured history that had to be corrected and the maker of the film did complete justice to it!". Asmita Pant of CNBC TV18 wrote that "the film offers a grounded perspective on the Kashmir issue.
The oldest record of Kashmiri language dates back to the 9th century, when poetry of Chumma Sampraday was in vogue. The followers of this sect wrote verses in old Kashmiri or Apabhramsa.
Three divisions are distinguished: Eastern Pahari, represented by Nepali of Nepal; Central Pahari, spoken in Uttarakhand state; and Western Pahari, found around Simla in Himachal Pradesh state.
Unusually for an Indo-European language, Dogri is tonal, a trait it shares with other Western Pahari languages and Punjabi. It has several varieties, all with greater than 80% lexical similarity.
In Kashmiri society, Syed/Pir castes (Geelani, Shah, Jeelani, Bukhari, Qadri, Hamdani, Andrabi etc.) are considered to be of top order and equivalent to Hindu Brahmins/Kshatriyas (Dabla, 2012). The 'occupational castes' (Zargar, Wani, Khandai, Bhat, Lone, Naqash, etc.)
The forebearers of the Sikh community in the valley were indeed native to regions including Poonch/Pothohar, Rawalpindi, Muzzafrabad, and Kashmir. These early Sikh settlers represented a diverse range of castes, including Dutt's, Sasan's, Sudan's, Sadiwal's, Raina's, Reen's, Lou's, Bali's, and many more.
The predominant religion of Kashmir valley is Islam. Muslims constitute more than 90% of the total population of Jammu and Kashmir. Even in Jammu, Kargil and some other districts, Islam forms a substantial part of the population.
Kashmiris in Punjab are descendants of those who have historically migrated from the Kashmir Valley in India's Jammu and Kashmir and settled in Punjab. Most people of this category identify as Punjabis with Kashmiri descent, either some or full.
Most of them are primarily geographically native to the Pakistani province of Punjab, but a large group of them have ancestry across the Punjab region as a whole. Punjabi Muslims speak or identify with the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as their mother tongue.
