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LingoBear creates short Kashmiri passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Indo-Aryan language of the Kashmir Valley, V2 word order (rare for Indo-Aryan), written in modified Perso-Arabic, Devanagari and the older Sharada script, ~7M speakers.

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Every word in your Kashmiri reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help as you read modified Perso-Arabic or Devanagari script.

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Kashmiri reading passage — useful when published materials focus narrowly on classical poetry.

What is Kashmiri and where is it spoken?

Kashmiri (کٲشُر / कॉशुर / koshur) is a Dardic Indo-Aryan language with around 7 million speakers, mainly in the Kashmir Valley and the wider Jammu and Kashmir region. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. Three scripts are in active use: a modified Perso-Arabic script (the most widespread), Devanagari, and the historic Sharada script used in some religious texts.

What's unusual about Kashmiri grammar?

Kashmiri is one of very few Indo-Aryan languages with verb-second (V2) word order — the finite verb always comes in second position regardless of what's first, much like German. It also distinguishes definite and indefinite reference through case, has split ergativity in the perfective, and uses clitic pronouns that attach to the verb. LingoBear lets you see these patterns in real text.