A Course in Kashmiri Language
Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat
Kashmir
Cultural Trust
Keeping the Kashmiri language, its literature and its culture alive — for Kashmiris everywhere, and for anyone who wants to know them.
A registered charitable trust in Jammu and New Delhi, working since 2000.
کٲشُرPerso-Arabicthe official script today
कॉशुरDevanagariused widely across the diaspora
𑆑𑆯𑆶𑆫Sharadathe script of Kashmir’s manuscripts
Our purpose
Kashmir Cultural Trust is a charitable trust created to work for the promotion, preservation and dissemination of National Cultural Heritage and Kashmiri language, literature and culture among the Kashmiri diaspora and others globally.
Teaching the language
A free spoken course of 48 audio lessons, with primers, readers and a grammar to read along.
Learn KashmiriPublishing
Over forty-five books on Kashmiri language and culture, and Vaakh, the Trust’s literary journal.
Browse the libraryBringing people together
Samanbal literary meets, seminars and international conferences on the Kashmiri language.
See our eventsRecording heritage
Documenting Kashmir’s history, saints, poets and crafts for the generations growing up away from the valley.
Explore heritage
Learn Kashmiri
From your first sounds to real conversations, in five stages
- 1
Sounds of Kashmiri
Hear and pronounce every vowel and consonant of Kashmiri correctly.
3 lessons
- 2
Listening Practice
Train your ear with seventeen graded spoken programmes and a vocabulary review.
18 lessons
- 3
Grammar Essentials
Build sentences of your own with pronouns, adjectives, verbs and tenses.
11 lessons
- 4
Everyday Conversations
Use Kashmiri in real situations — at the hospital, the market, travelling and visiting.
9 lessons
- 5
Fluency & Culture
Polish your Kashmiri and connect it to the culture — Dal Lake, the samovar, our mother tongue.
7 lessons
Literary journal
Vaakh
The Trust’s journal of Kashmiri language, literature and culture, carrying poetry, prose, criticism and research. Every issue is free to read.
Gatherings
Samanbal and conferences
2024
Samanbal 2024
A literary and cultural meet celebrating Kashmiri art, music, theatre, language and literature.
9–10 January
Jammu2022
Samanbal 2022
Scholars, writers and artists from across the country, gathered for two days of Kashmiri literature.
25–26 March
Jammu2019
International Conference on the Kashmiri Language
Organised with CIIL and Sahitya Akademi on the state and future of Kashmiri.
6–7 January
K.L. Saigal Hall, Jammu
From our gatherings
Open the gallery
Help keep Kashmiri alive
Donations pay for printing books, recording lessons and holding Samanbal. The Trust is a registered NGO and gifts qualify for tax benefits under section 80G.