Kishtwari
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Kishtwari or Kashtwari is a Northern Indo-Aryan language closely related to Kashmiri language, with strong influences from neighbouring Western Pahari varieties, spoken by Hindus in Kishtwar district of Jammu division in Jammu and Kashmir (union territory),India.
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Native to | Jammu and Kashmir |
Ethnicity | Kishtwaris |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2011 census)[1][2] |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | kish1245 |
Kishtwari has originated from Prakrit- the spoken language of common people in ancient times.The literary language was Sanskrit which has close relationship with Prakrit.It can be conveniently be called sister language of Kashmiri language as both have originated from Prakrit which is much simpler than Sanskrit.
Like Kashmiri,Kishtwari is also a language though George Abraham Grierson has called Kishtwari as a dialect of Kashmiri and a mixed dialect. But when the issue of languages and dialects is thoroughly analysed, Grierson's postulation is found untenable. He has not studied Kishtwari and it's dialects.He seems to have been influenced by Kishtwari-Kashmiri ,spoken by Muslims of Kishtwar and it's spectacular resemblance with kashmiri which is not pure Kashmiri but has close affinity to the Kashmiri of valley. So Kishtwari-Kashmiri is a dialect of kashmiri.
Kishtwari language has been preserved from the admixture of words and phrases from other languages and dialects. However, the original Prakrit spoken by common man of Kishtwar in olden times has absorbed some words from Dogri,Punjabi, and Persian languages but to a limited extent. The present form of Kishtwari is direct outcome of Prakrit, Pali or Sanskrit.