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Belûçî

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

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Language · bal · Iranian, Northwestern · on request

Belûçî

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
Niha
Akademî126 kurs, hîn yek jî ji bo tomarkirinê ne vekirî yeWelatîbûn3 kampanya, 5 bernameMîras116 rojên bibîranînê, 40 tomarên kronolojiyêNûçe88 çavkaniyên pejirandî, hîn tu bûyerên piştrastkirî tune neŞaxdi avabûnê de. Hîn yek jî nehatiye naskirin
ScriptArabright to lefton request
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Tomar

bal
بلۏچیBalochi · Arab
Kod
bal
Malbat
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf
Phase
on request
Vegirtin
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
Vekirî
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
Akademî

Writing

no scripts yet

Its own names

بلۏچیbalòci
right to left

Alfabe

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

Çavkanî

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

Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Malbat
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
Kod
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)) çavkaniya duyemîn
Standing
Western Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) çavkaniya duyemîn
Standing
Eastern Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) çavkaniya duyemîn
Sounds
24 consonants and 8 vowels, after Elfenbein 1997 · the inventory piştrastkirî

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
piştrastkirî
Piştrast bike, çavkaniyekê zêde bike an ragihîne
Alîkariya kontrolkirina vê nirxê bike

Paşê çi dibe. Parêzvanek nota te dixwîne û çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Rûpel tenê piştî wê diguhere. Navê te nayê gotin.

Cureyên zimanî

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.
piştrastkirî

Speakers

nenas
Pîvan
speakers
Sal
nehatiye tomarkirin
Çavkanî
Hîn çavkanî tune. Em nenas nîşan didin, ne texmînek.
Rewş
nenas
Piştrast bike, çavkaniyekê zêde bike an ragihîne
Alîkariya kontrolkirina vê nirxê bike

Paşê çi dibe. Parêzvanek nota te dixwîne û çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Rûpel tenê piştî wê diguhere. Navê te nayê gotin.

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.

Fêr bibe

1 course
1
BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Planned, outline not written yet
A course opens after its outline is reviewed. Until then it is listed with its state.
Hemû kurs

Key

labels and checks
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  • to verifyA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
  • nenasHîn çavkanî tune. Em nenas nîşan didin, ne texmînek.
Parêzvanek berî her guhertinê çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Navê te nayê gotin.
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