![]() ![]() According to the 1998 Census there were 132,450 Kashmiri speakers in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. UCLA estimates the number of speakers as being around 4.4 million, with a preponderance in the Kashmir Valley, whereas the 2001 census of India records over 5.5 million speakers. The label "Dardic" indicates a geographical label for the languages spoken in the northwest mountain regions, not a linguistic label. ![]() ![]() According to many linguists, the Kashmiri language is a northwest Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan family, descending from Middle Indo-Aryan languages. Although the language originates from Sanskrit it received a great deal of Persian influence during the Afghan and Persian rule evident in the language spoken today. ![]() Kashmiri is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley and Chenab regions of Jammu and Kashmir. (left)An example of early Sharada script, in the Bakhshali manuscript (right) Stone Slab in Verinag in Perso-Arabic script ![]()
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