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Countries

Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

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
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Alphabets
34 16

Phonology

How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
26 16

Scripts
Perso-Arabic script

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 47

Dialect 2
Western Balochi

Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00 57

Dialect 3
Southern Balochi

Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates

How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00 42

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.60 million 62

Speaking Population
0.11 % 56

Native Speakers
7.60 million 55

Second Language Speakers
8.50 million 43

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
39 36

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
-

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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.

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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.

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