Kashmiri

Welcome to our Kashmiri page, featuring books, courses, and software to help you learn Kashmiri! Kashmiri is from the Dardic sub-group of the Indo-Aryan language tree and is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley, and has about 4.6 million native speakers. Kashmiri is rich in Persian words, as with Urdu. It has three different scripts: Perso-Arabic, the Devanagari, and the Sharada script; it is also sometimes written in a Latin alphabet. If you have any questions or can't find what you need, please e-mail us.

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Modern Kashmiri Grammar
Omkar N. Koul, Kashi Wali
Modern Kashmiri Grammar aims at providing basic yet extensive information on various aspects of Kashmiri phonology, morphology, and syntax along with its unique features and historical background. In this book we have utilized simple terminology, and provided suitable description with tables for grammatical categories, phrases, and sentence types. The Introduction gives a survey of the dialectal variations in the language, history of literature and grammar, and more crucially, the status of Kashmiri in the home state itself. This grammar emphasizes special features of Kashmiri that sets it apart from other Indo-Aryan languages. In short, it will fulfill the need of the basic language learner as well as provide useful information for the linguist and general reader. 2006, 216 pages, hardbound.

$89