Kashmiri
| Kashmiri | ||
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Spoken in |
 India ( Jammu and Kashmir ) Pakistan
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| speaker | 7.1 million | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | India , Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
ks |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
cheese |
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| ISO 639-3 |
cheese |
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Kashmiri (also Kashmiri , कॉशुर /کٲشُر kŏśur ) is a language from the group of Dardic languages within the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family .
Kashmiri is mainly spoken in the Kashmir Valley in the Indian- controlled part of Kashmir . There are 6.8 million native speakers of Kashmiri in India according to the 2011 census. Kashmiri is recognized as one of 22 constitutional languages in India on a supraregional level . According to the 2017 census, around 350,000 Kashmiri speakers live in Pakistan .
The Kashmiri is written both in an adapted Arabic script and in Devanagari . It used to be written in its own script, Sharada .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on Language and Kashmiri Tongue. Part A: Distribution of the 22 scheduled languages-India / States / Union Territories. (PDF) Census of India 2011
- ↑ According to results of the 2017 census published in the press, 0.17 percent of Pakistan's 207.685 million people speak Punjabi as their first language; see. CCI defers approval of census results until elections . Dawn, May 28, 2018.