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Balochi: resources and preservation

Balochi dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

بلۏچی

01Directory

Each entry names its authority. A date shows when its link was checked; entries without one are to verify.

Media entries are public broadcasters of different states. A listing is not an endorsement. Media under international sanctions are not listed.

02Endangerment

EntryStatusBasis
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verify
Southern BalochiNot endangered5* (Developing)
Western BalochiNot endangered5* (Developing)
Eastern BalochiNot endangered5* (Developing)

Sources UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify; Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source

03Documentation

No documentation project for Balochi is recorded here yet. These archives hold recordings and studies of the region’s languages.

04Contribute

Share a source, a recording or a correction.

  • Native translators: translate the pages into Balochi. This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Balochi.
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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Balochi: Resources and preservation. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/resources/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Balochi: Resources and Preservation.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/resources/.

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@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_bal_resources,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Balochi: Resources and preservation},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/resources/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/resources/},
}

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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Balochi Language

    National Cancer Institute · 2020 · Definitions

    OtherOpenAlexCrossrefOpen accessCC-BY

  2. <b>Linguistic Links between Balochi and Urdu Language</b>

    null Farzana Khadarzai, Dr. Kiran Dawood Butt · 2023 · Tashkeel

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  3. The Balochi Language

    Hamid Ali Baloch · 2018 · Unpublished

    DatasetDataCite

  4. Balochi Language to English Translation Dataset

    Muhammad Saqib · 2023 · Kaggle

    DatasetDataCite

  5. The Sulaimani Dialect of the Balochi Language: A Phonological Study

    2023 · Makhz

    ArticleCrossref

  6. Code-Copying in the Balochi Language of Sistan

    Lutz Rzehak · 2011 · Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. LANGUAGE CONTACT IN BALOCHISTAN: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE BALOCHI LANGUAGE

    Hamid Ali Baloch, Balochi Supervisor, Razzaq Abdul et al. · 2018

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  8. The Prediction of Next Word in Balochi Language Using N-gram Model

    Sharan · 2024 · Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  9. The Balochi Language and Languages in Iranian Balochistan

    Carina Jahani · 2013 · The Journal of the Middle East and Africa

    ArticleOpenAlexOpenAIRE

  10. Similarities and Unique Homogeneity of Certain Letters of Brahui and Balochi Language

    2024 · Makhz

    ArticleCrossref

  11. Acquiring Persian Object Marking: Balochi Learners of L2 Persian

    Ute Bohnacker, Somayyeh Mohammadi · 2013 · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessother-oa

  12. Newspapers as a Tool for Language Revival: The Case of Balochi in Pakistan’s Media Landscape

    Abdul Malik, Syed Muhammad Aziz Ali Naqvi, Furrakh Abbas · 2026 · Research Journal for Social Affairs

    ArticleOpenAIRE

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