Balochi, also rendered as Baluchi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, spoken by the Baloch people in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. There are also speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Africa, and in diaspora communities elsewhere.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2017-2020 estimate, native speakers; the infobox gives this as the inclusive code bal figure, which also covers Eastern, Western and Southern Balochi individual codes. StatusWikipedia article on Balochi: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Balochi Language
Source Wikipedia: Balochi Language
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Balochi is most commonly written in a Perso-Arabic-based script.
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The Baloch people are an ethnic group which speaks the Western Iranian Balochi language and are native to the Balochistan region of South and West Asia, occupying parts of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
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Balochi, also rendered as Baluchi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, spoken by the Baloch people in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. In addition, there are speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Africa, and in diaspora communities of other parts of the world. The total number of speakers, according to Ethnologue, is 8.8 million.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
bal
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The total number of speakers, according to Ethnologue, is 8.8 million.
Infobox, Region
Balochistan
In Family: Indo-Iranian, Infobox, Language family
Indo-Iranian
In Family: Western Iranian, Infobox, Language family
Western Iranian
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