| Bashkardi | |
|---|---|
| Southern Bashkardi | |
| ئواچۮڵۀ چۯڠکۆمۊ | |
| Native to | Iran |
| Ethnicity | Bashkardi |
Native speakers | (7,000 all Bashkardi cited 2000)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bsg (for all Bashkardi) |
| Glottolog | bash1263 Bashkardi |
| ELP | Bashkardi |
Southern Bashkardi or Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern "Bashaka", is a Southwestern Iranian language23 spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan. The language is closely related to Garmsiri, Larestani and Kumzari. It forms a transitional dialect group to northwestern Iranian Balochi, due to intense areal contact.
Northern Bashkardi, or Marzi Gāl, is closer to neighbours than is Southern Bashkardi, or Molki Gāl,4 and has been classified as a dialect of the neighboring Garmsiri (a.k.a. Bandari) language.56
The Bashkardi varieties spoken further inland may not all fall into either Northern or Southern Bashkardi.6
References
References
- Bashkardi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- see M. Mayrhofer, in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. R. Schmitt, Wiesbaden, 1988, forthcoming, and G. Windfuhr, ibid
- Schmitt, Rüdiger, ed. (1989). Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (in German). Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 3-88226-413-6.
- Skjærvø, Prods Oktor (1988). "Baškardi". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. London and New York: Routledge. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
From what has been published it would seem that North Baškardi is more closely related to its western relatives than to South Baškardi.
- Habib Borjian, “Kerman Languages”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 16, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 301-315. [1]
- Erik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali & Amos Hayes (2019) The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI). Iranian Studies 52. A Working Classification
Further reading
Further reading
- Korn, Agnes (2025). "Notes on word order in Bashkardi". In Geoffrey Haig; Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand; Donald Stilo; Laurentia Schreiber; Nils N. Schiborr (eds.). Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology. Contact and Multilingualism. Vol. 6. Language Science Press. pp. 155–173. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14266339. ISBN 978-3-96110-492-5. ⟨halshs-04845560⟩