Ebook: Phonological variation in Srinagar variety of Kashmiri

// Nepalese Linguistics, Vol. 23, 2008, pp. 116-
125. (10 p.)The Kashmiri language, also called kəshmur, is a native language of Kashmir. Apart from Kashmir, this language is also spoken by migrant population in other parts of India and abroad. In the ancient period, Kashmiri became an important centre of Sanskrit learning, in the medieval period, Persian had a great influence and the modern period indicated the influence of Urdu and English. This has resulted in large scale borrowing from Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu and English into Kashmiri, particularly at the lexical level.