Kashmiris
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)* |
| Pakistan | 3,330,000 (Lahore District, 2017)† 132,450 (Azad Kashmir, 1998)* |
| Languages | |
| Kashmiri, Urdu | |
| 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. 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]) also known as Koshurs are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.