Bashkardi language

Bashkardi
Bashkardi
Southern Bashkardi
Molki Gāl
Native to	Iran
Ethnicity	Bashkardi
Native speakers	(7,000 all Bashkardi cited 2000)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Bashkardi; ; ; ; ;
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]

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]
^ ^a ^b Erik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali & Amos Hayes (2019) The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI). Iranian Studies 52. A Working Classification