Kashmiri

Kaeshir (Kashmiri)
Family:	Indo-Aryan
ISO Codes:	ks / kas / kas
Incubator:	apertium-kas
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Kashmiri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Kashmir Valley and regions around it that were historically a part of various kingdoms based in Kashmir. Kashmiri shares some common vocabulary with other Indo-Aryan languages of India and Pakistan such as Hindi and Punjabi, yet, probably due to its unique isolationist topography and history, has developed features of its own, such as a word order (syntax) different from the usual SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) found in Indo-Aryan languages, a sound system which features contrastive palatalisation of nearly all consonants and an extensive system of vowels.

Resources

Kashmiri Language Websites

• Muneeb Urrahman's Literary Blog
• Bible in latin letters
• Neab International
• Neab Magazine
• kashmirilanguage.com (Has a not insignificant amount of text in nastaliq)

Other Corpora

• University of Kashmir Digital Library
• EMILLE/CIIL Corpus (Huge corpus of many Indian languages, needs special approval to access, cannot redistribute)

Grammar

• Resources compiled by the Kashmiri Pandit Network (Includes structured course versions of some grammars, with recordings)
• Various grammars by Omkar Koul:
  • Modern Kashmiri Grammar
  • Spoken Kashmiri: A Language Course
  • Kashmiri: A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar

Dictionaries

• Grierson Dictionary (1932, in Devanagari and latin, can query online)
• Hassan Dictionary (2010, only latin, can query online, has recordings)
• Kaesher Lugaat - Shafi Shauq (Modern dictionary produced by the Academy, nastaliq, tricky to find)
• Kashir Dictionary - Tousikhani (7 volumes)
• Kashmiri-English Dictionary - Omkar N. Koul
• Persian/Tajik-Kashmiri-English dictionary - Jān, Jī. Ār

Related:

• A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs - Omkar N. Koul

Developers

Nominal Morphology

Potential Students for GSoC 2019

• Rurik - Kashmiri-Hindi?
•  ?