Bashkardi or Bashagardi, is a
Southwestern Iranian language
The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.
Languages
The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...
spoken in the southeast of
Iran
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in the
provinces
A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term ''provi ...
of
Kerman
Kerman (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kerman County), Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
History
Kerman was founded as a def ...
,
Sistan and Baluchestan, and
Hormozgan. The language is closely related to
Garmsiri,
Larestani
Achomi (), also known as Khodmooni and Larestani, is a Middle Persian (Parsig) derived and Southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Achomi people in southern Fars and western Hormozgan and by significant numbers of Ajam citizens in the U ...
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'',
and has been classified as a dialect of the neighboring
Garmsiri ( Bandari) language.
[Habib Borjian, “Kerman Languages”, in ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''. Volume 16, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 301-315]
/ref>[Erik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali & Amos Hayes (2019) ''The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI)''. Iranian Studies 52]
A Working Classification
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The Bashkardi varieties spoken further inland may not all fall into either Northern or Southern Bashkardi.[
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References
External links
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Languages of Iran
Southwestern Iranian languages
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