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بلوچی

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

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بلوچی

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

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On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses1
انّوں
اکیڈمی126 کورس، انگت ہچ یکے داخلہءِ واستہ پچ نہ انتشہری3 مہم، 5 پروگراممیراث116 داشتنی روچ، 40 تاریخ نامگءِ درآمدحال88 منظور بوتگیں منبع، انگت تصدیق بوتگیں پیشآتک نیستشاخجوڑ بیگءَ انت. انگت ہچ یکے منگ نہ بوتگ
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Record

bal
بلۏچیBalochi · Arab
Code
bal
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf
Phase
on request
پوشش
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Planned, outline not written yet
پچ کن
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
اکیڈمی

Writing

no scripts yet

Its own names

بلۏچیbalòci
right to left

رسم الخط

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 Persian Gulf, and a Latin alphabet is also used. CLDR holds no letter set for Balochi yet.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.
All scripts

Resources

3 resources
Glottolog: Southern Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
تصدیق بوتگ
Glottolog: Western Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
تصدیق بوتگ
Glottolog: Eastern Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
تصدیق بوتگ
Each resource shows whether its link was checked. A resource without a checked link is labelled to verify.

Linguistics

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)) ثانوی
Standing
Western Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) ثانوی
Standing
Eastern Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) ثانوی
Sounds
24 consonants and 8 vowels, after Elfenbein 1997 · the inventory تصدیق بوتگ

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
تصدیق بوتگ
تصدیق کن، منبعے ہوار کن یا رپورٹ کن
اے ارزشءِ چکاسءَ کمک کن

رندا چے بیت. نگہپانے تئی نوٹءَ وانیت ءُ منبعءَ چکاس کنت. تاکدیم ہمیشءِ رندا بدل بیت. تئی نام گرگ نہ بیت.

رنگ

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.
تصدیق بوتگ

Speakers

نازانتگ
پیمانہ
speakers
سال
ثبت نہ بوتگ
منبع
انگت ہچ منبع نیست. ما نازانتگ پیش داریں، اندازہ نہ.
حالت
نازانتگ
تصدیق کن، منبعے ہوار کن یا رپورٹ کن
اے ارزشءِ چکاسءَ کمک کن

رندا چے بیت. نگہپانے تئی نوٹءَ وانیت ءُ منبعءَ چکاس کنت. تاکدیم ہمیشءِ رندا بدل بیت. تئی نام گرگ نہ بیت.

No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.

دربر

1 course
1
BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Planned, outline not written yet
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  • نازانتگانگت ہچ منبع نیست. ما نازانتگ پیش داریں، اندازہ نہ.
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