Follow us on KASHUR , the language of the Kashmiris, is said to be a Prakrit of the pure and original Sanskrit, and some say that it was in former times a written language in Sharada characters, Sharada being a brother form of the Devanagari . There are doubts, however, as to whether it was ever written, and at present anyone who wishes to write in the Kashur language employs Persian letters, to which certain sibilants not known in the Persian alphabet have to be added. Ch is used by Kashmiris to represent ts , a letter very common but most difficult to pronounce; final I, m n, r are usually pronounced as though they had a vowel added to them; w and b are sometimes convertible. The town we know as Baramulla is known to most Kashmiris as Waramula

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