Rumpun bahasa Dardik (disebut juga Dardu atau Pisaka[1]) adalah sub-kelompok rumpun bahasa Indo-Arya yang secara asli dituturkan di bagian utara Gilgit Baltistan dan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa negara Pakistan, bagian utara Jammu dan Kashmir, India, dan bagian timur Afghanistan.[2][3] Kashmir adalah bahasa Dardik yang paling menonjol, dengan tradisi sastra yang mapan dan pengakuan resmi sebagai salah satu bahasa resmi India.[2][4][5]
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/topic/Dardic-languages
- ^ a b Peter K. Austin (2008), One thousand languages: living, endangered, and lost, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-25560-7,
Kashmiri is one of the twenty-two official languages of India, and belongs to the Dardic group, a non-genetic term that covers about two dozen Indo-Aryan languages spoken in geographically isolated, mountainous northwestern parts of South Asia ...
- ^ Bashir, Elena (2007). Jain, Danesh; Cardona, George, ed. The Indo-Aryan languages. hlm. 905. ISBN 978-0415772945.
'Dardic' is a geographic cover term for those Northwest Indo-Aryan languages which [..] developed new characteristics different from the IA languages of the Indo-Gangetic plain. Although the Dardic and Nuristani (previously 'Kafiri') languages were formerly grouped together, Morgenstierne (1965) has established that the Dardic languages are Indo-Aryan, and that the Nuristani languages constitute a separate subgroup of Indo-Iranian.
- ^ Hadumod Bussmann; Gregory Trauth; Kerstin Kazzazi (1998), Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-415-20319-8,
... Dardic Group of about fifteen Indo-Iranian languages in northwestern India; the most significant language is Kashmiri (approx. 3 million speakers) ...
- ^ H. Kloss; G.D. McConnell; B.P. Mahapatra; P. Padmanabha; V.S. Verma (1989), The Written Languages of the World: A Survey of the Degree and Modes of Use, Volume 2: India, Les Presses De L'Université Laval, ISBN 2-7637-7186-6,
Among all the languages of the Dardic group, Kashmiri is the only one which has a long literary tradition ...