Bashkardi | |
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Southern Bashkardi | |
Molki Gāl | |
Native to | Iran |
Ethnicity | Bashkardi |
Native speakers | 7,000 all Bashkardi (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 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 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. [5] [6]
The Bashkardi varieties spoken further inland may not all fall into either Northern or Southern Bashkardi. [6]
From what has been published it would seem that North Baškardi is more closely related to its western relatives than to South Baškardi.