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Where is Western Balochi spoken?

Western Balochi is an Indo-European language, spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Western Balochi is spoken

Western Balochi is spoken in 4 countries: Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Pakistan0.6%1,438,475
Iran0.6%494,967
Afghanistan0.6%252,766
TurkmenistanNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Western Balochi has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Western Balochi?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Western Balochi sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Western Balochi as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Indo-Iranian
  4. Iranian-Nuristani
  5. Iranian
  6. Central Iranian PBS
  7. Central Iranian PB
  8. Northwestern Iranian
  9. Balochic
  10. Southern-Western Balochi
  11. Western Balochi

More about Western Balochi

Codes: ISO 639-3 bgn, Glottolog west2368. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Western Balochi

Where is Western Balochi spoken?

Western Balochi is spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Unicode CLDR puts it at 0.6% of the population of Pakistan, which is about 1,438,475 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Western Balochi in?

Glottolog places Western Balochi in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian-Nuristani, Iranian, Central Iranian PBS, Central Iranian PB, Northwestern Iranian, Balochic and Southern-Western Balochi.

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