Bashkardi language
Appearance
Bashkardi | |
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Bashagerdi, Bashaka | |
Native to | Iran |
Ethnicity | Bashkardi |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2000)[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bsg |
Glottolog | bash1263 |
ELP | Bashkardi |
Bashkardi or Bashagerdi is a Southwestern Iranian language[2][3] spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan. The language is closely related to Larestani and Kumzari languages, it forms a transitional dialect group to northwestern Iranian Balochi, due to intense areal contact, with South Bashkardi being more divergent from its southwestern Iranian neighbours than North Bashkardi.[4]
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 July 26, 2013.
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