Kashmiris

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 to 2019), 2011)*
Pakistan	3,330,000 (Lahore District, 2017)†; 132,450 (Azad Kashmir, 1998)*
Canada	6,165*
Languages
	Kashmiri, Urdu
Religion
	Majority:; Islam; (Sunni majority, Shia minority); Minority: Hinduism;
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 but might not speak the language any more.

Kashmiris (Kashmiri pronunciation: [kəːʃirʲ]) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group^[6] speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

^ "Abstract Of Speakers' Strength of Languages And Mother Tongues – 2011" (PDF). Census India (.gov). 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^ "District Profile". District Lahore - Government of Punjab. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023.
^ Shakil, Mohsin (2012), Languages of Erstwhile State of Jammu Kashmir (A Preliminary Study)
^ "Canada 2021 Census Profile". Census Profile, 2021 Census. Statistics Canada Statistique Canada. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
^ Khanday, A., Aabid M, Sheikh,(2018) Urdu Language in Kashmir: A Tool of Assimilation or Means towards Segregation?, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH CULTURE SOCIETY, vol 2,no 12. "Urdu being an alien language for all regions of the state does not have too many people considering it as their mother tongue in the state. This is despite the fact that most people understand and speak the language in Jammu and Kashmir."
^ Gupta, Jyoti Bhusan Das (6 December 2012). Jammu and Kashmir. Springer. p. 14. ISBN 978-94-011-9231-6.