Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bgp
Eastern Balochi Language بلوچی
Eastern Balochi is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts.
Where Eastern Balochi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Eastern Balochi
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
- Central Iranian PB
- Northwestern Iranian
- Balochic
- Eastern Balochi
Writing system
Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Eastern Balochi language
Eastern Balochi (بلوچی) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 331st most spoken language in the world — just behind Bashkir (1.8 million) and ahead of Chuvash (1.8 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Balochic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Eastern Balochi spoken?
Eastern Balochi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Pakistan (1.8 million).
Eastern Balochi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Eastern Balochi is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Southern Balochi, Western Balochi, Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, Mazanderani, Gilaki and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bgp.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.