Editing Balochi language (section)

== Grammar ==
The normal word order is [[subject–object–verb]]. Like many other Indo-Iranian languages, Balochi also features [[split ergativity]]. The subject is marked as nominative except for the past tense constructions where the subject of a [[transitive verb]] is marked as [[oblique case|oblique]] and the verb agrees with the [[grammatical object|object]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/february/balochi.html |title=Balochi |work=National Virtual Translation Center |access-date=20 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118155049/http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/february/balochi.html |archive-date=18 November 2007 |language=en-US}}</ref> Balochi, like many Western Iranian languages, has lost the [[Old Iranian]] gender distinctions.<ref name="Elfenbein 1988"/>

=== Numerals ===
Much of the Balochi number system is identical to [[Persian language|Persian]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Korn |first1=Agnes |title=Indoiranskoe jazykoznanie i tipologija jazykovyx situacij. Sbornik statej k 75-letiju professora A. L. Grjunberga (1930–1995) |year=2006 |publisher=Nauka |pages=201–212 |chapter-url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01500154 |chapter=Counting Sheep and Camels in Balochi |access-date=16 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> According to [[Mansel Longworth Dames]], Balochi writes the first twelve numbers as follows:<ref>{{harvnb|Dames|1922|pp=13–15}}.</ref>

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Cardinal numerals
!Balochi
!Standard Alphabet(Balòrabi)
!English
|-
|Yak
| یکّ
|One{{efn|The latter ''ya'' is with nouns while ''yak'' is used by itself.}}
|-
|Do
|دو
|Two
|-
|Sae
|سئ
|Three
|-
|Chàr
|چار
|Four
|-
|Panch
|پنچ
|Five
|-
|Shash
|شش
|Six
|-
|Hapt
| ھپت
| Seven
|-
|Hasht
| ھشت
| Eight
|-
|Noh
|نُھ
|Nine
|-
|Dah
|دَہ
|Ten
|-
|Yàzhdah
| یازدہ
|Eleven
|-
|Dwàzhdah
| دوازدھ
|Twelve
|}
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Ordinal numerals
!Balochi
!Standard Alphabet(Balòrabi)
!English
|-
|Awali / Pèsari
|اولی / پݔسَری
|First
|-
|Domi
|دومی
|Second
|-
|Sayomi
|سئیُمی
|Third
|-
|Cháromi
|چارمی
|Fourth
|-
|Panchomi
|پنچُمی
|Fifth
|-
|Shashomi
|شَشُمی
|Sixth
|-
|Haptomi
|ھپتُمی
|Seventh
|-
|Hashtomi
|ھشتمی
|Eighth
|-
|Nohmi
|نُھمی
|Ninth
|-
|Dahomi
|دھمی
|Tenth
|-
|Yázdahomi
|یازدھمی
|Eleventh
|-
|Dwázdahomi
|دوازدھمی
|Twelfth
|-
|Goďďi
|گُڈڈی
|Last
|}
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