Kundal Shahi (village)

Kundal Shahi (Urdu: کنڈل شاہی ‎; locally: kunḍal šai) is a village and tourist resort in the Neelam Valley in northern Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It has a scattered settlement area, located on both sides of the Jagran Nallah River, at its confluence with the Neelam River. It is a few minutes walking distance from the Neelam Valley highway, some 74 kilometers (46 mi) by road from Muzaffarabad, and a few kilometres away from the Line of Control between India– and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.[3]

Kundal Shahi
Village
Kundal Shahi Village, Kashmir
Kundal Shahi
Kundal Shahi
Coordinates: 34.5548°N 73.8439°E / 34.5548; 73.8439
Country Pakistan
StateAzad Kashmir
DistrictNeelam
Elevation
1,357 m (4,452 ft)
Languages
 • OfficialUrdu[1][2][note 1]
 • Spoken
Time zonePST

The majority of the population are of the Qureshi ethnic group, and there are small numbers of people from the Sheikh, Mughal, and Sayyid groups.[3] Members of the Qureshi community, numbering about 3,000 people,[4] speak the Kundal Shahi language. It is an endangered language as it is not being learned by the younger generation, who are shifting to Hindko, the language of wider communication in the area.[5] Most of the people of the village follow the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam.[6]

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Notes
  1. Snedden (2013, p. 176): On p. 29, the census report states that Urdu is the official language of the government of Azad Kashmir, with Kashmiri, Pahari, Gojri, Punjabi, Kohistani, Pushto, and Sheena 'frequently spoken in Azad Kashmir'. Yet, when surveyed about their 'mother tongue', Azad Kashmiris' choices were limited to selecting from Pakistan's major languages: Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushto, Balochi, Saraiki, and 'others'; not surprisingly, 2.18 million of Azad Kashmir's 2.97 million people chose 'others'.

Citations
  1. "Kashmir".
  2. Rahman 1996, p. 226.
  3. Baart & Rehman 2005, p. 4.
  4. Rehman 2011, pp. 220–21.
  5. Baart & Rehman 2005, pp. 5, 7.
  6. Baart & Rehman 2005, p. 7.

Bibliography
  • Baart, Joan L. G.; Rehman, Khawaja A. (2005). "A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir". SIL Electronic Working Papers. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Rehman, Khawaja A. (2011). "Ergativity In Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri And Hindko". In Mark Turin; Bettina Zeisler (eds.). Himalayan languages and linguistics: studies in phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax. Brill's Tibetan studies library, Languages of the greater Himalayan region. Leiden: Brill. pp. 219–234. ISBN 978-90-04-19448-9.


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