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Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.
Chefs even use Kashmiri chillis as a substitute for dishes with Goan Peri-Peri masala. [4] Due to the high demand for Kashmiri chilis, substitutes such as Byadagi chillies are often used. [3] There are government initiatives and incentives in Jammu and Kashmir to support and increase the production of the local variety of the Kashmiri chilli. [5]
Kashmiri (English: / k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər i / kash-MEER-ee) [10] or Koshur [11] (Kashmiri: کٲشُر (Perso-Arabic, Official Script), pronounced) [1] is a Dardic Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, [12] primarily in the Kashmir Valley and Chenab Valley of the Indian-administrated union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, over half the population of that ...
These vowels are sometimes used in Hindi too, as in डॉलर dôlar ("dollar"). [52] IAST transliteration is not defined. In ISO 15919, the transliteration is ê and ô, respectively. Kashmiri Devanagari uses letters like ॳ, ॴ, ॶ, ॷ, ऎ, ऒ, औ, ॵ to represent its vowels (see Kashmiri language#Devanagari).
Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of the Mahābhāṣya commentary on Pāṇini's grammar, suggested by some to have been the same to write the Hindu treatise known as the Yogasutra, and Dridhbala, who revised the Charaka Samhita of Ayurveda.
Omkar Nath Koul (7 January 1934 – 7 December 2019) was a Kashmiri linguist.As a researcher, his interests included the areas of linguistics, language education, communications management, and comparative literature. [1]
Kashmiri Apabhraṃśa is the northern Apabhraṃśa lect which descends from the Prakrits and further descends into Pahari languages. It was spoken in the Kashmir region of India. It is attested in texts such as Tantrasāra by Abhinavagupta , Āgamaḍambara , and Bhavisattakahā by Dhanapāla.
It was through its recording in Gurmukhi that knowledge of the pronunciation and grammar of the Old Punjabi language (c. 10th–16th century) was preserved for modern philologists. [27] A sample of a mediaeval, handwritten Gurmukhi document. The Sikh gurus adopted Proto-Gurmukhī to write the Guru Granth Sahib, the religious scriptures of the ...