About Balochi Language | Balochi | Alphabets in Balochi

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 11 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Iran

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.

Similar To

Kurdish and Persian

Derived From

Ancient Indo-Iranian Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 16 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 16 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Perso-Arabic script

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Salam

Thank You

mana bebahgsh

How Are You?

chone tao?

Good Night

jawáin shap

Good Evening

jawáin begáh

Good Afternoon

سلام علیکم

Good Morning

jawáin sawáh

Please

Mihrabani kan

Sorry

bebaksh / bebagsh

Bye

bye

I Love You

Tu mana doost biyeh

Excuse Me

mana bebahgsh

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Balochi

Where They Speak

Pakistan

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00

Rank: 47 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Western Balochi

Where They Speak

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00

Rank: 57 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Southern Balochi

Where They Speak

Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates

How Many People Speak

3,400,000.00

Rank: 42 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.60 million

Rank: 62 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.11 %

Rank: 56 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

7.60 million

Rank: 55 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

8.50 million

Rank: 43 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

بلوچی

Alternative Names

Baluchi

French Name

baloutchi

German Name

Belutschisch

Pronunciation

[bəˈloʧi]

Ethnicity

Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui

History

Origin

19th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Balochi

Language Position

Rank: 36 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Balochi Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bal

ISO 639 2/B

bal

ISO 639 3

bal

ISO 639 6

bal

Glottocode

balo1260

Linguasphere

58-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Balochi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Balochi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Balochi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Balochi. Balochi phonology gives Balochi vowels and Balochi consonants. There are 8 vowels and 26 consonants in Balochi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Balochi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Balochi language is given in detail in this section.

All Balochi countries

Want to explore all Balochi countries? About Balochi language serves you with all Balochi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Balochi as official language are called as Balochi countries.

Countries that use Balochi as their National Language are: Iran.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Balochi as second language are: Balochi is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Balochi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Balochi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Balochi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Balochi language.Learn Balochi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Salam
Thank you: mana bebahgsh
Good Morning: jawáin sawáh
Good Evening: jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon: سلام علیکم

All Balochi Language Codes

Get to know all Balochi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Balochi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.