Abstract
Balochi is in all essentials a "Northwestern" Iranian language and is spoken in south-western Pakistan, south-eastern Iran, Southern Afghanistan the Gulf States and Turkmenistan. There are also communities of Baloch in east Africa and India, as well as in several countries of the west e.g. great Britain and the USA. It is very hard to estimate the total number of speakers of Balochi especially since central government do not generally stress ethnic identity in census reports but statistics available give at hand that at least between five and eight million Balochi speak the language. Linguistically Balochi belongs to the western group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language and is closely related to Kurdish and Persian. Balochi possesses, however a rich oral literature of both poetry and prose. As a written language Balochi can be divided into two period the colonial period with British rule in India and period after the independence of Pakistan. Most of the existing written literature was produced as a result of British influence. The literature of this time on and in Balochi consists of grammar books and collections of oral poetry and tales, compelled in order to provide samples of the language and to make it possible for British military and civil officials to learn Balochi. With the withdrawal of the British and the independence of Pakistan 1947, the Baloch themselves became increasingly concerned with the development of their language Baloch poets who had previously composed in Persian and Urdu started to write poetry in their mother tongue. Literary circles were founded and publications of magazines and books in Balochi got underway. This use of Balochi as a written language ha کارونجہر [ ] ہ 157 نوادبا 157 ز soon developed into the two main centers of Balochi literary activities. In Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and the Gulf States. Balochi is still basically on oral language, despite sporadic attempts at writing and publication. The primal aim of this papers dwells in an attempt to unveil the relevant analytical portrayal of the prevailing status of Balochi language and literature since its evolutional voyage from commencement.
Abdul Waheed Baloch, Dr Khalil Ahmad Lodhi. (2015) Baloch Language And Literature An Analytcal Research , Karoonjhar Research Journal, Volume-13, Issue-1.
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