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Balochi

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

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Balochi

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

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Academy126 courses, 126 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
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bal
بلۏچیBalochi · Arab
Code
bal
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Sistan and Baluchestan, and across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf
Phase
on request
Coverage
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Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

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BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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Its own names

بلۏچیbalòci
right to left

Scripts

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.
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Resources

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

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
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Varieties

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

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BalochiIDCDC-LNG-05 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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