A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, the Gulf States (particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates), Turkmenistan, India, and East Africa. Informal estimates suggest that no less than 10 million people speak the language. It can be divided into three main dialect b...
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| description | Balochi is an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, the Gulf States (particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates), Turkmenistan, India, and East Africa. Informal estimates suggest that no less than 10 million people speak the language. It can be divided into three main dialect blocks, Western, Southern and Eastern Balochi. Ever since the mid-20th century, there have been attempts to create a unified orthography for Balochi. The development of written Balochi has mainly taken place in Pakistan, where there have been advocates of both the Arabic and Latin scripts. Most literature, of course, has been written in Arabic script, but even here diverging systems have been used. In 2012, at the initiative of Uppsala University, the University of Balochistan and the Balochi Academy, Quetta, as well as a number of Baloch authors and literary societies, a programme was launched with the purpose of working towards the standardization of Balochi orthography and grammar. At an orthography conference held in Uppsala in 2014, the participants decided to work on two parallel orthographies, one based on the Arabic script and one on the Latin script. In 2016, a grammar conference was held, at which some of the areas of grammatical variation in Balochi were discussed and suggestions were made about what forms to include in the standard written Balochi language. In order to create and promote a standard Balochi language, it is important to include as many intellectuals as possible in the process, in order to gain a consensus for the suggested standard language. This description of Modern Standard Balochi orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and word-formation is based on discussions held at the conferences and on further input from a number of renowned Baloch writers and linguists. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1513252025-07-21T15:44:30Z A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi Jahani, Carina Balochi Iranian languages grammatical description orthography phonology morphology syntax word-formation thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages Balochi is an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, the Gulf States (particularly Oman and the United Arab Emirates), Turkmenistan, India, and East Africa. Informal estimates suggest that no less than 10 million people speak the language. It can be divided into three main dialect blocks, Western, Southern and Eastern Balochi. Ever since the mid-20th century, there have been attempts to create a unified orthography for Balochi. The development of written Balochi has mainly taken place in Pakistan, where there have been advocates of both the Arabic and Latin scripts. Most literature, of course, has been written in Arabic script, but even here diverging systems have been used. In 2012, at the initiative of Uppsala University, the University of Balochistan and the Balochi Academy, Quetta, as well as a number of Baloch authors and literary societies, a programme was launched with the purpose of working towards the standardization of Balochi orthography and grammar. At an orthography conference held in Uppsala in 2014, the participants decided to work on two parallel orthographies, one based on the Arabic script and one on the Latin script. In 2016, a grammar conference was held, at which some of the areas of grammatical variation in Balochi were discussed and suggestions were made about what forms to include in the standard written Balochi language. In order to create and promote a standard Balochi language, it is important to include as many intellectuals as possible in the process, in order to gain a consensus for the suggested standard language. This description of Modern Standard Balochi orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and word-formation is based on discussions held at the conferences and on further input from a number of renowned Baloch writers and linguists. 2025-02-16T09:25:21Z 2025-02-16T09:25:21Z 2025-02-07T16:26:21Z 2019 book ONIX_20250207_9789151308203_8 1100-326X https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98268 9789151308203 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151325 eng Studia Iranica Upsaliensia open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98268/1/9789151308203.pdf 10.33063/8vvg8862 10.33063/8vvg8862 9789151308203 Uppsala open access |
| spellingShingle | Balochi Iranian languages grammatical description orthography phonology morphology syntax word-formation thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages Jahani, Carina A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |
| title | A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |
| title_full | A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |
| title_fullStr | A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |
| title_short | A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |
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| topic | Balochi Iranian languages grammatical description orthography phonology morphology syntax word-formation thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages |
| topic_facet | Balochi Iranian languages grammatical description orthography phonology morphology syntax word-formation thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages |
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