Re: Any Kashmiri speaking?
thanks, everyone.
abdelyuuki, ajk aur koshur are like persian? any books which you can recommend to learn Kashmiri language? best, Dushwari
As far as Im aware people in AJK speak Pahari/Potwari which is basically 99.9% punjabi, wheras people in the Kashmir valley speak Koshur which although originally has a sanskrit base, is now only around 5% sanskrit if that. It became highly persiansed due to the mughals and afghans i think,so it has a lot of persian 30-40% a lot of shina and other dardic language mixtures too, as well as a bit of punjabi 5%ish. But it is a very distinct language to all of them. Easiest way to learn is to go to Kashmir to be honest, it has lots of weird pronunciations and would be hard to learn by yourself.
A person from Azad Kashmir speaking Pahari/Potwari will not understand anything in Koshur.