Southern Bashkardi or
Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern "Bashaka", is a
Southwestern Iranian language spoken in the southeast of
Iran in the
provinces of
Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...
,
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 Balochi, sometimes spelt in various other ways, may refer to:
* Balochi language, a language of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjective for something related to the Baloch people, an ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjecti ...
, 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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Languages of Iran
Southwestern Iranian languages
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