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Kashmiri language - Definition and Overview


Kashmiri is an Dardic Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Pakistan. It has 4,391,000 speakers.

It is an SVO language. It was originally written in the Sharada script, but now is written in the closely related Devanagari as well as Persian scripts. The earliest literary composition in Kashmiri that has survived is the poetry of Lalleshvari, the 14th century mystic poet.

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