Translations
Languages of the Archive
Dedicated landings for the linguistic worlds of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Each page will grow with naming notes, scripts, varieties, and related materials — not invented publication lists.
One language is not one script.
Language landing
Pahari/Pothwari
A major spoken language of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and neighbouring hill districts. This page will later cover varieties, scripts, transliteration conventions, and related Dhaar materials — without treating one script as the language itself.
Shahmukhi / Perso-Arabic · Roman transliteration where useful
Open page →کٲشُر
Koshur (Kashmiri)
Kashmiri as used across the wider Kashmir region. The landing will document naming, script practice in sources, and how Dhaar records original-language text alongside translation.
Perso-Arabic · Sharada historically · Roman transliteration where useful
Open page →اردو
Urdu
A major language of publication, administration, and literary life in AJK. Pages here will distinguish source Urdu from translations into or out of Urdu.
Nastaliq / Perso-Arabic · Roman transliteration where useful
Open page →پنجابی
Punjabi
Punjabi appears in regional speech, print, and cross-border literary worlds. Dhaar will preserve the script of the source and note variety where known.
Shahmukhi · Gurmukhi where sources use it · Roman transliteration where useful
Open page →فارسی
Persian/Farsi
Historical and literary Persian in the archive context — manuscripts, correspondence, and inherited textual traditions connected to the region.
Perso-Arabic · Roman transliteration where useful
Open page →Language landing
Gojri
Gojri language materials will be described with attention to community naming, script practice in sources, and related oral or written records.
Perso-Arabic where used · Roman transliteration where useful
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