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koshur an introduction to spoken kashmiri नमस्ते शारदे देवि काश्मीरपुरवासिनि त्वामहं प्रार्थये नित्यं विद्यादानं च देहि मे oh goddess sharada sarasvati resident of kashmir i bow down to thee i pray to you to give me the gift of knowledge kashmiri popularly known as koshur is an indo aryan language even the opponents of this linguistic classification of this language grouped it with dardi shrinya khowar dialects which are spoken in the areas adjacent to the valley in its north and north west language historians and linguists have often however concurred on the theory that the above mentioned dialects fall in the category of languages that bear resemblance to the indo aryan as well as to the indo iranian languages philologists believe that like the earliest naga inhabitants of the mountains of kashmir having been cut off from the mainstream aryans like their counterparts viz the ghandarvas the yakshas the kinnaras etc their language took time to accept influences and merge with the main aryan languages the naga language developed of its own and underwent changes natural to any language all the same it maintained its peculiar vowel system and when it surfaced in the 8th 9th century ad it had passed through all the stages of the prakrits and apabhrams has like other modern indian languages the earliest available evidence of the kashmiri language belongs to this period this site makes an attempt to preserve what is not lost yet by offering online lessons in real audio format more join us