1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
Kurdish and Persian
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
mana bebahgsh
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
chone tao?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
jawáin shap
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
jawáin begáh
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.60 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.60 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Baluchi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative