Countries
India, Pakistan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
India, Pakistan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Hindi and Urdu Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Not Available
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
  
آسف
  
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Poguli
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Rambani
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.42 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
kashmiri
  
arabe
  
German Name
Kaschmiri
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
  
Arabs
  
Origin
12th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Indic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ks
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kas
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
kas
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
kas
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kash1277
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic