An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri

 The Sounds of Kashmiri
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The Pronunciation Practice




This section provides lists of words arranged for pronunciation practice of Kashmiri sounds. 
  • The aspirated and unaspirated contrasts in the initial position (e.g., , ; and , ).
  • The retroflex sounds (e.g., , , ).
  • The central vowels, especially  and .
  • The nasalized vowels, especially the central nasalized vowels (e.g.,   and ).
  • The contrast between palatal and non-palatal sounds.
  • The evenly distributed stress in Kashmiri. Kashmiri, like Hindi-Urdu, is a syllable-timed language, as opposed to English which is a stress-timed language. In Kashmiri, one function of stress is that it is used for emphasis.

Contrast between palatal and non-palatal consonant sounds






The Sounds of Kashmiri
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