This section provides lists of words arranged for pronunciation practice of Kashmiri sounds. 

• The aspirated and unaspirated contrasts in the initial position (e.g., , ; and ,).

• The retroflex sounds (e.g., , , ).

• The central vowels, especially  and .

• The nasalized vowels, especially the central nasalized vowels (e.g.,   and ).

• The contrast between palatal and non-palatal sounds.

• The evenly distributed stress in Kashmiri. Kashmiri, like Hindi-Urdu, is a syllable-timed language, as opposed to English which is a stress-timed language. In Kashmiri, one function of stress is that it is used for emphasis.