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Balochi

بلۏچی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf.

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Balochi

بلۏچی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf.

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Academy126 courses, none open for enrolment yetCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet

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bal

بلۏچیBalochi · Arab

Code: bal
Family: Iranian, Northwestern
Where: Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf
Phase: on request
Coverage: not yet measured

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BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Planned, outline not written yet

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بلۏچیbalòci

right to left

Scripts

The script page for this variety is not built yet. It is written in the Arab script, right to left.

Balochi is written in an Arabic-based alphabet in Iran and Pakistan. Conventions differ between Iran, Pakistan and the Gulf, and a Latin alphabet is also used. CLDR holds no letter set for Balochi yet.

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Resources

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Glottolog: Southern Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23

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Glottolog: Western Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23

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Glottolog: Eastern Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23

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family, dialects, sounds and standing

Family: Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Central Iranian PBS, then Central Iranian PB, then Northwestern Iranian, then Balochic, then Southern-Western Balochi, then Southern Balochi-Koroshi
Codes: ISO 639-3 bcc, bgn, bgp · macrolanguage bal · Glottolog sout2642, west2368, east2304
Dialects: Southern Balochi: Coastal Balochi, Kechi (7 listed in all)
Dialects: Western Balochi: Lashari, Rakhshani, Sarawani (11 listed in all)
Dialects: Eastern Balochi: Bugti, Kasrani, Leghari, Marri, Mazari, Upper Sindhi Balochi (6 listed in all)
Standing: Southern Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) secondary
Standing: Western Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) secondary
Standing: Eastern Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) secondary
Sounds: 24 consonants and 8 vowels, after Elfenbein 1997 · the inventory verified

b d d̠ʒ ɖ ɡ ɣ h j k l m n p ɽ ɾ s ʃ t t̠ʃ ʈ ʋ x z ʒ ä äː eː iː ɪ oː uː ʊ

Southern Balochi-Koroshi

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Varieties

ISO 639-3 treats Balochi as a macrolanguage (bal) with Southern, Western and Eastern Balochi. Balochi in Iran is mostly Southern and Western.

to verify · ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority.; Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages.

In law

The 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan (Article 16) makes Baluchi a third official language in areas where most people speak it.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.

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BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Planned, outline not written yet

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