Language code: kas

Technical information about ISO 639 language code kas

The table below provides technical details for the Kashmiri language, designated by the kas code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

kas

Name

Official

Kashmiri

Native

कश्मीरी

Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Central KashmiriNorthern Kashmiri (Kamraz)Southern Kashmiri (Maraz)Kishtwari (Kashtawari)
Related languages
ShinaPashaiIndus KohistaniKalasha
Key facts
Belongs to the Dardic subgroup of Indo-Aryan, setting it apart from most surrounding languagesShows split ergativity, using ergative alignment in the perfective pastMaintains eight grammatical cases, a rarity among modern Indo-Aryan languagesPossesses several phonemic central vowels and voiced aspirated affricates absent in neighboring tonguesWritten in both Perso-Arabic Nastaliq and Devanagari scripts, with romanization used informally
Sample phrase

آداب، تُہندٕے کِیٖا حال چھُ؟

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Kashmiri language, identified by the code kas, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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