Learn Kashmiri: Kashmiri alphabet chart and letters
Learning Kashmiri language
Kashmiri is written from Right to Left, similar to Hebrew, Arabic and Urdu languages.
About Kashmiri
Kashmiri is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and one of the five official languages of Jammu and Kashmir (with Dogri, Hindi, Urdu and English) under the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020. The 2011 Census counted 68 lakh people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script, from right to left.
Links
To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Kashmiri.
- Department of Culture, Jammu and Kashmir: home of the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, which publishes Kashmiri dictionaries and books
- Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Kashmiri and the other languages of India
Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule.