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Rh represented by 'h', a feature noticed under the Iranian.

Gender in Kashmiri is natural, words referring to males being masculine and those to females feminine, unlike Sanskrit and very like the Dravidian languages. Of other correspondences between Kashmiri and the Dravidian may be mentioned the use of ' Ku' in the genitive case of nouns; the free use made of pronominal suffixes added to verbs to suppiy the place of personal terminations with the necessary euphonic changes; the presence of a negative voice unlike in Sanskrit where negation has to be expressed by a separate particle 'na,' but by the insertion within the verbal form of the sign of the negative (chuh'-he is; chuna-he is not); the use of 'a" to ask a question as in all the Dravidian languages, but unlike Skt. (c'hva'-is he?); the piling up of suffixes one after another just in the manner of the Dravidian (Karu-was made