original_query: How many Kashmiris speak the Kashmiri language?
query: How many people speak the Kashmiri language?
answer: Around 7 million Kashmiris speak Kashmiri in Jammu and Kashmir and among the diaspora in other Indian states.  In Azad Kashmir, estimates vary, with as many as 350,000 declaring Kashmiri as their first language in the 2017 Census.