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Balochi language,
also spelled BALUCHI, or BELUCHI, modern Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian
group of the Indo-European language family. Balochi speakers live
mainly in an area now composed of parts of southeastern Iran and southwestern
Pakistan that was once the historic region of Balochistan. They also
live in Central Asia (near Merv, Turkmenistan) and southwestern Afghanistan,
and there are colonies in Oman, southern Arabia, and along the east
coast of Africa as far south as Kenya.
Balochi is a Western Iranian language that is closely related to
Kurdish. Despite the vast area over which it is spoken, its six
dialects (Rakhshani, Sarawani, Kechi, Lotuni, the Eastern Hill dialects,
and the coastal dialects) are all believed to be mutually intelligible.
There are an estimated 4,800,000 worldwide speakers of Balochi Mostly
in (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran). |
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