Kashmiri language has split ergativity and the unusual verb-second word order.
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16 Facts About Kashmiri language
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Kashmiri language is spoken by roughly five percent of Azad Kashmir's population.
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The Kashmiri language spoken in Muzaffarabad is distinct from, although still intelligible with, the Kashmiri language of the Neelam Valley to the north.
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In Neelam Valley, Kashmiri is the second most widely spoken language and the majority language in at least a dozen or so villages, where in about half of these, it is the sole mother tongue.
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Process of language shift is observable among Kashmiri-speakers in Azad Kashmir according to linguist Tariq Rahman, as they gradually adopt local dialects such as Pahari-Pothwari, Hindko or move towards the lingua franca Urdu.
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Rahman notes that efforts to organise a Kashmiri language movement have been challenged by the scattered nature of the Kashmiri-speaking community in Azad Kashmir.
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In 2020, Kashmiri became an official language in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the first time.
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Kashmiri language is closely related to Poguli and Kishtwari, which are spoken in the mountains to the south of the Kashmir Valley and have sometimes been counted as dialects of Kashmiri language.
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Certain features in Kashmiri language even appear to stem from Indo-Aryan even predating the Vedic period.
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Kashmiri language nouns are inflected according to gender, number and case.
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Kashmiri language utilizes an ergative-absolutive case structure when the verb is in simple past tense.
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Kashmiri language verbs are declined according to tense and person, and to a lesser extent, gender.
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Past tense in Kashmiri language is significantly more complex than the other tenses, and is subdivided into three past tense distinctions.
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Kashmiri is an Indo-Aryan language and was heavily influenced by Sanskrit, especially early on.
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In modern times, Kashmiri language vocabulary has been imported from Hindustani and Punjabi.
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However, Kashmiri language belongs to a relatively small set that preserves the distinction.
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