Countries
India, Pakistan
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
India, Pakistan
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Hindi and Urdu Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Not Available
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Poguli
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Rambani
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.42 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
  
Not Available
  
French Name
kashmiri
  
chinois
  
German Name
Kaschmiri
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
  
Han
  
Origin
12th Century
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ks
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kas
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
kas
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
kas
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kash1277
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating