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Language code: ks

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ks

Documentation

The table below provides technical details for the Kashmiri language, designated by the ks code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ks

Standard

ISO 639-1

Name

Official

Kashmiri

Native

कश्मीरी

Family
Dardic
Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Central Kashmiri (Srinagar)Kashtawari (Kishtwari)PoguliRambani
Related languages
ShinaKhowarIndus KohistaniPashaiKalasha
Key facts
Only Dardic language with a substantial classical literary corpusExhibits complex pronominal suffixes that mark subject agreementWritten today in both Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts, with historical use of the Sharada scriptRetains breathy-voiced consonants lost in many other Indo-Aryan languagesVocabulary shows heavy layers of Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic borrowings
Sample phrase

ہیلو، تُہندِ چھُ کسُن؟

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Kashmiri belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Dardic subgroup. It is one of the official languages in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is written using the Perso-Arabic script. It is estimated that there are more than 7 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

India

6.6M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Kashmiri speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ks-IN Kashmiri (India)

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