 | This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: extremely poor writing in some places (including grammar, spelling, etc.). (August 2020) |
 Kashmiri girls performing the Rouf dance at a festival in New Delhi, India, 2011 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 India | 6,797,587 (Jammu and Kashmir (1952–2019), 2011)*[1] |
 Pakistan | 3,330,000 (Lahore District, 2017)†[2] 132,450 (Azad Kashmir, 1998)*[3] |
 Canada | 6,165*[4] |
| Languages | |
| Kashmiri, Urdu[5] | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Islam (Sunni majority, Shia minority) Minority: | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Indo-Aryan peoples | |
*The population figures are only for the number of speakers of the Kashmiri language and may not include ethnic Kashmiris who no longer speak the Kashmiri language. †The population figures are for those who self-identify as ethnic Kashmiris, with almost none speaking the language anymore. | |
Kashmiris (Kashmiri pronunciation: [kəːʃirʲ]) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group[6] speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
- ^ "Abstract Of Speakers' Strength of Languages And Mother Tongues – 2011" (PDF). Census India (.gov). 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "District Profile". District Lahore - Government of Punjab. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023.
- ^ Shakil, Mohsin (2012), Languages of Erstwhile State of Jammu Kashmir (A Preliminary Study)
- ^ "Canada 2021 Census Profile". Census Profile, 2021 Census. Statistics Canada Statistique Canada. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ Khanday, A., Aabid M, Sheikh,(2018) Urdu Language in Kashmir: A Tool of Assimilation or Means towards Segregation?, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH CULTURE SOCIETY, vol 2,no 12. "Urdu being an alien language for all regions of the state does not have too many people considering it as their mother tongue in the state. This is despite the fact that most people understand and speak the language in Jammu and Kashmir."
- ^ Gupta, Jyoti Bhusan Das (6 December 2012). Jammu and Kashmir. Springer. p. 14. ISBN 978-94-011-9231-6.