Kashmiri
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| Kaeshir (Kashmiri) | |
|---|---|
| Family: | Indo-Aryan |
| ISO Codes: | ks / kas / kas |
| Incubator: | apertium-kas |
| Language pairs: | {{{pairs}}} |
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.[1]
