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{{Short description|Representation of the Kashmiri language between different scripts}}
'''Kashmiri Transliteration''' refers to the [[transliteration|conversion]] of the [[Kashmiri language]] between different scripts that is used to write the language in the [[Kashmir]] region of the [[Indo subcontinent]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kashmiri alphabet, pronunciation and language |url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/kashmiri.htm |website=omniglot.com}}</ref> The official script to write Kashmiri is extended-[[Perso-Arabic script]] in both [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu-Kashmir]] and [[Azad-Kashmir]] cutting across religious boundaries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Braj B. Kachru: An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri |url=http://www.koshur.org/SpokenKashmiri/Introduction/index.html |website=www.koshur.org}}</ref> Some sections of the [[Kashmiri Hindus|Kashmiri Hindu community]] use an extended-[[Devanagari]] script to write the language<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 June 2009 |title=Valley divide impacts Kashmiri, Pandit youth switch to Devnagari |language=en |work=The Indian Express |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/valley-divide-impacts-kashmiri-pandit-youth/472872/}}</ref> (previously written using [[Sharada script]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 January 2010 |title=The Sharada Script: Origin and Development |url=http://www.koausa.org/Languages/Sharda.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107211343/http://www.koausa.org/Languages/Sharda.html |archive-date=2010-01-07}}</ref>). Transliteration is hence essential to cross this script-barrier imposed by religious affiliations and convert texts to cater all the [[Kashmiri people]].

Since both Arabic and [[Indic scripts]] of Kashmiri are almost phonetic and preserve all vowels, it is feasible to design approximate rule-based systems that can transliterate between both the writing systems although the former is an [[impure abjad]] and the latter is an [[abugida]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Building a Cross Script Kashmiri Converter: Issues and Solutions |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320547275 |journal=ResearchGate |language=en}}</ref> Note that one cannot directly use the [[Hindi-Urdu transliteration]] systems since there have been various reforms on top of those scripts to accommodate Kashmiri phonology over [[Hindustani phonology]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kashmiri (deva) |url=https://r12a.github.io/scripts/devanagari/kashmiri |website=r12a.github.io |access-date=2021-08-17 |archive-date=2021-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126204254/https://r12a.github.io/scripts/devanagari/kashmiri |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In addition to Kashmiri, there have been attempts to provide Indo-Pakistani transliteration systems for [[digraphic]] languages like [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] (written in [[Gurmukhi]] in [[Punjab, India|East Punjab]] and [[Shahmukhi]] in [[West Punjab]]), [[Sindhi transliteration|Sindhi]] (written in extended Perso-Arabic in [[Sindh]] and in Devanagari by [[Sindhi Hindus|Sindhis in partitioned India]]) and [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]] (written in an [[Saraiki alphabet#Arabic script|extended-Shahmukhi script]] in [[Saraikistan]] and unofficially in Sindhi-Devanagari script in India).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Perso-Arabic To Indic Script Transliteration |url=http://sangam.learnpunjabi.org/ |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=sangam.learnpunjabi.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Saraiki - Devanagari Machine Transliteration System - SDMTS |url=http://www.sanlp.org/saraikiMT/index.html |access-date=2021-08-09 |website=www.sanlp.org }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Kashmiri language]]

Kashmiri transliteration - Revision history

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