#nastaliq script

Kashmiri, from 8th century onwards, was written in the Sharada script—as was Sanskrit before that, and even Arabic in the transitional 14-16th centuries. Once the Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script took over, Pandits and Muslims alike used that for Kashmiri. But after 1989, while Kashmiri Muslims have retained the Nastaliq, Pandits, esp­ecially younger generations, have moved to Devanagari and even the Roman script.