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Bəluci

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

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Language · bal · Iranian, Northwestern · on request

Bəluci

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

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On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses1
Isə
Akademiya126 kurs, hələ heç i qeydə dəğıl bıə bəştə oko niVətəndoşi3 kampaniya, 5 proqramİrs116 hıştə ruj, 40 xronologiyayi qeydXəbəron88 təsdiq bıə mənbə, hələ təsdiq bıə tədbir niŞöbəonsoxtə bedən. Hələ heç i tanınmə ni
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Record

bal
بلۏچیBalochi · Arab
Code
bal
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf
Phase
on request
Əhatə
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
Oko bıkən
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.

Writing

no scripts yet

Its own names

بلۏچیbalòci
right to left

Xəton

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.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

Resources

3 resources
Glottolog: Southern Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
təsdiq bıə
Glottolog: Western Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
təsdiq bıə
Glottolog: Eastern Balochireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
təsdiq bıə
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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)) ikinci dərəcəyi
Standing
Western Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) ikinci dərəcəyi
Standing
Eastern Balochi: not endangered (5* (Developing)) ikinci dərəcəyi
Sounds
24 consonants and 8 vowels, after Elfenbein 1997 · the inventory təsdiq bıə

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
təsdiq bıə
Yoxlə bıkən, mənbə əlavə bıkən yo xəbər bıdən
In qiyməti yoxlə kardəədə kumək bıkən

Bəşə çiç bəbe. Kurator şımə qeydi vandə u mənbə yoxlə kardə. Səhifə bəs ıyədə dımlo dəyişə bedə. Şımə nom zıkr nıbedə.

Variyanton

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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Speakers

nıznəkə
Ölçü
speakers
Sor
qeyd nıbıə
Mənbə
Hələ mənbə ni. Əmə məlum ni nışon doəmon, təxmin ni.
Vəziyyət
nıznəkə
Yoxlə bıkən, mənbə əlavə bıkən yo xəbər bıdən
In qiyməti yoxlə kardəədə kumək bıkən

Bəşə çiç bəbe. Kurator şımə qeydi vandə u mənbə yoxlə kardə. Səhifə bəs ıyədə dımlo dəyişə bedə. Şımə nom zıkr nıbedə.

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.

Bıomutən

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.

Key

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  • nıznəkəHələ mənbə ni. Əmə məlum ni nışon doəmon, təxmin ni.
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