^ (a) Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannia, "Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent", Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 15 August 2019 CS1 maint: extra text: authors list ( link) (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent.Archived from the original on 15 September 2020. "CCI defers approval of census results until elections". Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2020. ^ "Abstract Of Speakers' Strength of Languages And Mother Tongues - 2011" (PDF).Some modern Kashmiri poets and writers are Mehjoor and Abdul Ahad Azad. Kashmiri literature dates back to over 750 years, comparable to that of most modern languages. Kashmiri is believed to be the only one among the Dardic languages that has a written literature.
According to Professor Khawaja Abdul Rehman the Kashmiri language is on the verge of dying out in the Neelum Valley. According to the 1998 Census there were 132,450 Kashmiri speakers in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. UCLA estimates the number of speakers as being around 4.4 million, with a preponderance in the Kashmir Valley, whereas the 2001 census of India records over 5.5 million speakers. The label "Dardic" indicates a geographical label for the languages spoken in the northwest mountain regions, not a linguistic label.
According to many linguists, the Kashmiri language is a northwest Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan family, descending from Middle Indo-Aryan languages. Although the language originates from Sanskrit it received a great deal of Persian influence during the Afghan and Persian rule evident in the language spoken today. Kashmiri is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley and Chenab regions of Jammu and Kashmir. (left)An example of early Sharada script, in the Bakhshali manuscript (right) Stone Slab in Verinag in Perso-Arabic script
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