Kashmiri and Shina: A Study of Comparative Morphology
Ahmad, Tanveer / Dhar, Nazir A.
Kashmiri and Shina have both been classified by Grierson (1919) as belonging to the Dard sub-group of the 'Dardic' languages. Turner (1927: 533), while comparing Shina with its neighbouring languages reports that, "This language- Shina- is closely related to Kashmiri". Colin P. Masica in his The Indo-Aryan Languages (1991: 297) reports, "there is nothing special beyond Kashmiri: only Shina and its offshoot Phalura show gender in pronouns." Und...