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Balochi: linguistics

Balochi sounds, pronunciation, grammar and core vocabulary.

بلۏچی

01Sounds

The language’s phonemes, from one published description.

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This section will show the consonant and vowel tables of Balochi from PHOIBLE 2.0, inventory Southern Balochi (EA 2545), based on Elfenbein 1997. PHOIBLE is under CC BY-SA 3.0, and the tables appear once the owner approves the source.

02Core words compared

Ten everyday words across the languages of the region.

MeaningPersianKurmanjiSoraniZazakiBalochiAzerbaijaniArmenian
waterآبābavئاوawaweāpsuջուրjur
breadنانnānnanنانnannannānçörəkհացhatsʻ
motherمادرmādardêدایکdaykmayemātanaմայրmayr
fatherپدرpedarbavباوکbawkpîpitataհայրhayr
houseخانهkhānemalماڵmałkeyelōgevտունtun
nightشبshabşevشەوşewşeweshapgecəգիշերgisher
twoدوdoduدووdûdidoikiերկուerku
threeسهsesêسێsêhîrêsēüçերեքerekʻ
eyeچشمcheshmçavچاوçawçimchammgözաչքachkʻ
nameنامnāmnavناوnawnamenāmadանունanun

Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki and Balochi are Iranian languages, and many of their core words are related. Azerbaijani is Turkic and Armenian is its own branch of Indo-European, so their words differ. To verify

Sources Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. (1892) Verified; Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. (2003) To verify; Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. (1966) To verify; Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. (1998) To verify; Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. (2009) To verify; Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. (1998) To verify; Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. (2009) To verify

03Sources

  1. Moran and McCloy (eds.). PHOIBLE 2.0. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2019

    Verified CC BY-SA 3.0 Phoneme inventories, each from the published source it names, read 2026-10-23.

  2. Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. 1892

    Verified Public domain. The digital edition was reachable on 2026-10-23.

  3. Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. 2003

    To verify

  4. Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. 1966

    To verify

  5. Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. 1998

    To verify

  6. Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. 2009

    To verify

  7. Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. 1998

    To verify

  8. Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. 2009

    To verify

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Balochi: Linguistics. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/linguistics/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Balochi: Linguistics.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/linguistics/.

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	year = {2026},
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	title = {Balochi: Linguistics},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/linguistics/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/bal/linguistics/},
}

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04Research 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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