Editing Balochi language (section)

== Classification ==
Balochi is an [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language]], spoken by the [[Baloch people|Baloch]] and belonging to the [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] branch of the family. As an [[Iranian languages|Iranian language]], it is classified in the [[Western Iranian languages|Northwestern group]].

''[[Glottolog]]'' classifies four different varieties, namely [[Koroshi dialect|Koroshi]], Southern Balochi and Western Balochi (grouped under a "Southern-Western Balochi" branch), and Eastern Balochi, all under the "Balochic" group.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glottolog 4.3 – Balochic|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/balo1260|access-date=2021-05-13|website=glottolog.org}}</ref>

According to [[Carina Jahani]] research,<ref name=":The Baloch and Their Neighbours">{{cite book |last1=Carina،Korn |first1= Jahani،Korn|title=The Baloch and Their Neighbours |date=2003|publisher= Reichert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3IMAQAAMAAJ|isbn=9783895003660}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carin|first1= Jahani|title=A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi |date=2019|publisher= Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crdpzQEACAAJ|isbn=9789151308203}}</ref> ISO 639-3 groups Southern, Eastern, and Western Baloch under the Balochi macrolanguage, keeping Koroshi separate.
Balochi, somehow near similarity with the [[Parthian language|Parthian]] and on the other hand, it has near kinship to the [[Avestan]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi : Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287489626.pdf|website=[[Open University]] |access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan: (Oral Narratives)|url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A345413&dswid=1970|website=[[Uppsala University]] |access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=An Old Phonological Study of Balochi and Persian|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264276260|website=[[ResearchGate]] |access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Getting to know the dialects of Sistan and Baluchistan; from north to south|url=https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/477883/%D8%A2%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%DA%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%AA%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8|website=[[Hamshahri]] |date=14 January 2020 |access-date=31 January 2024|language=fa-IR}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A discussion in Iranian linguistics|url=https://www.sid.ir/FileServer/SF/5291395h11189|access-date=31 January 2024|language=fa-IR}}</ref>