Kishtwari
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Kishtwari or Kashtwari is a dialect of Kashmiri language, with strong influences from neighbouring Western Pahari varieties. It is spoken by Hindus in Kishtwar district of Jammu division in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Kishtwari
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.states
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Language.date
- 2011 census
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- Indo-Aryan
- Language.fam4
- Eastern Dardic
- Language.fam5
- Kashmiri
- Language.ethnicity
- Kishtwaris
- Language.isoexception
- dialect
- Language.glotto
- kish1245
- Language.glottorefname
- Kishtwari
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Western Pahari
- Country
- India
- Image
- Kishtwari written in Takri and Urdu Script.png
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- indigenous to
- Kishtwar district
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Classification
- Number of speakers
- Script
- References
Kishtwari or Kashtwari is a dialect of Kashmiri language, with strong influences from neighbouring Western Pahari varieties. It is spoken by Hindus in Kishtwar district of Jammu division in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
==Origin== Kishtwari originated from Prakrit – the spoken language of common people in ancient times. The literary language was Sanskrit which has a close relationship with Prakrit. It can be conveniently called a sister language of the Kashmiri language, as both have originated from Prakrit which is much simpler than Sanskrit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kishtwari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.