The Dardic languages or Dardu are a sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages natively spoken in northern Pakistan’s Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern India’s Jammu and Kashmir, and eastern Afghanistan. Kashmiri is the most prominent Dardic language, with an established literary tradition and official recognition as one of the national languages of India.
