Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Iran
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Kurdish and Persian
Marathi
Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3452
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2636
9
60
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Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Salam
Namaskar
Thank You
mana bebahgsh
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
chone tao?
kaso assa?
Good Night
jawáin shap
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
jawáin begáh
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
سلام علیکم
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Mihrabani kan
Chike
Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
Maf kor
Bye
bye
Adeus
I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Eastern Balochi
Antruz
Where They Speak
Pakistan
Goa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Balochi
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Not present
Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
-
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.50 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
بلوچی
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Baluchi
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
baloutchi
konkani
German Name
Belutschisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[bəˈloʧi]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Konkanis
Origin
19th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Balochi
Kokani
Language Position
3923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Balochi Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bal
kok
ISO 639 2/B
bal
kok
ISO 639 3
bal
kok
ISO 639 6
bal
kok
Glottocode
balo1260
goan1235
Linguasphere
58-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-