Kashmiri is a language from the Dardic subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages and is spoken primarily by the people of  Jammu and Kashmir.  Kashmiri retains several features of Old Indo-Aryan that have been lost in other modern Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi. Some vocabulary features that Kashmiri preserves clearly date from the Vedic Sanskrit era and had already been lost even in Classical Sanskrit. 

Kashmiri Language holds a rich heritage with unimmitable treasures of literary works on  mysticism, transcendence, love, life and society, beginning in (c1250) by Shitikantha,  Lalleshvari and Nund Reshi in  (14th century) , Habba Khatun, Rupa Bhavani, Arnimal, Mahmud Ghami, Rasul Mir in the (16th Century) and other unrivaled sages. In 1919 George Abraham Grierson wrote that “Kashmiri is the only one of the Dardic languages that has a literature”.Kashmiri literature dates back to over 750 years. There are about 7.5 million speakers of Kashmiri and related dialects in the world.

Due to continual demographic and political turmoil the region has faced in the last three centuries accelerated by the conflict between India and Pakistan in recent times, which clouds the region, Kashmiri language and literature has suffered irreversible loss on many fronts. While no significant measures have been taken towards preservation and translation of its literary heritage.  

Adding Kashmiri language to the list of languages in the Google/Bing translate menu will be a crucial step in preservation of Kashmiri language by allowing the community to work on translation of the language and literature into different languages of the world. It will also allow the native kashmiri speakers to interact with people from different parts of the world who find themselves linguistically isolated because of unavailability of translation options in the modern day communication mediums.