Kashmiri people are a Dardic ethnic group living in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and parts of the Pakistani territory of Azad Kashmir. They speak Kashmiri, 'a Northwestern Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European language family' also known as Koshur and hence those speaking it are Dardic people.
Kashmiri people are now classified into Kashmiri Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits though they were mostly Buddhist, Hindu, and Pagan originally.
