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.[1]
Kundal Shahi | |
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Village | |
 Kundal Shahi Village, Kashmir | |
  Kundal Shahi  Kundal Shahi | |
| Coordinates: 34.5548°N 73.8439°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| State | Azad Kashmir |
| District | Neelam |
| Elevation | 1,357 m (4,452 ft) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Urdu |
| • Spoken | |
| Time zone | PST |
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.[1] Members of the Qureshi community, numbering about 3,000 people,[2] 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.[3] Most of the people of the village follow the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam.[4]
References
Notes
Citations
- Baart & Rehman 2005, p. 4.
- Rehman 2011, pp. 220–21.
- Baart & Rehman 2005, pp. 5, 7.
- 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.
- 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.