Southern Bashkardi or
Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern "Bashaka", is a
Southwestern Iranian language
The Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranic languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.
Languages
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spoken in the southeast of
Iran
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in the
provinces
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of
Kerman,
Sistan and Baluchestan, and
Hormozgan. The language is closely related to
Garmsiri,
Larestani
Achomi ( fa, اچُمی), also known as Larestani and Khodmooni, is a Southwestern Iranian Persian language spoken by people in southern Fars and western Hormozgan and by significant numbers of immigrant groups in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, ...
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
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Languages of Iran
Southwestern Iranian languages
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