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Awesome Balochi NLP Resources

A repository for resources relating to NLP in the Balochi language. A companion resource is the Huggingface Balochi Machine Learning organisation.

General Balochi language

  • Baluchi Language and Literature — the language entry from Encyclopedia Iranica.
  • The Balochi Language Project — resources and information from Uppsala University (Sweden)
  • Jahani, Carina, and Korn, Agnes. (2009) “Balochi.” Iranian languages, edited by Windfuhr, Gernot, London, New York: Routledge, 2009, pp. 634-692. (Link)
  • Jahani, Carina. (2013) “The Balochi language and languages in Iranian Balochistan.” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 4.2 (2013): 153-167. (Link)
  • Spooner, Brian. “Balochi: Towards a Biography of the Language.” Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: The Changing Politics of Language Choice 2 (2011): 319.
  • Wiki-style Overview page from the University of Arizona's Iranian Languages Center.

Textbooks / Language learning resources

  • Mansel Longworth Dames (1922), A text book of the Balochi Language (searchable // full text) — Reflects Balochi spoken in Pakistan in the early twentieth century.
  • Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sabir (?), Balochi Reader. (Dunwoody Press hardback / audio cds)
  • Barker, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman and Aqil Khan Mengal. 1969/1980. A Course in Baluchi. Montreal: Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. — Reflects Balochi usage in Pakistan in the late 1960s.
  • Farrell, Timothy. 1990. Basic Balochi: An Introductory Course. Balochistan Monograph Series, 1. Naples: Instituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici. — An introductory course on Southern Balochi. (Hard copy @ SOAS)
  • Guilani, Jami Shakibi; Kordi, Qani (1992), Comparative Probe in the Iranian Dialects: Khashi Dialect of the Baluchi Language [Volume: 10].
  • Textbooks on Archive.org — 13 entries as of June 2023.
  • Michel Malherbe and Naseebullah (2013). Parlons Baloutche. (in French).
  • DLI Headstart: Balochi (Online course)
  • DLI GLOSS: Balochi (Online reading + listening materials for study). Link.
  • NFLC Graded Exercises and Materials. Link. 11 videos and materials for students of the language.
  • DLI Language Survival Kit: Balochi. Basic phrasebooks for US military.
  • Okati, Farideh (2012). The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects. (AbeBooks)
  • Okati, Farideh, Pétur Helgason, and Carina Jahani. “Diphthongization in five Iranian Balochi dialects.” Orientalia Suecana 61 (2013): 107-119.
  • Soohani, Bahareh. The phonology of Iranian-Balochi dialects: description and analysis. Diss. 2017.

Dictionaries / Glossaries

  • Mumtaz Ahmad (1985), Baluchi Glossary. (sale copies // searchable)
  • Gilbertson, George Waters; Khan, Ghano. English Balochi Colloquial Dictionary [Volume: 1 and 2] (1996).
  • Balochi Dictionary (SIL / Uppsala University) c. 2019. Online. — Southern Balochi: 10868 words. (Browse English / Browse Balochi).
  • Dashti, Nasser (2021). A Balochi English Dictionary. (Amazon)
  • Dr Abdul Ghafoor Jahandideh (?) Persian - Balochi Dictionary. (Vol 1 / Vol 2)
  • Sayad Ganj سیدگنج - The First Balochi Dictionary (Github Repo)

Balochi text data / datasets

Readers

  • Elbenbein, Josef (1990). An Anthology of Classical and Modern Balochi Literature (2 vols). — "Volume one, 465 pages, comprises a reader with Balochi texts and facing English translations, in various literary genres; the Balochi is all in Latin transcription. Volume two is a 167-page Balochi-English glossary, again in Latin script and alphabetic order."

Other Balochi materials

NLP resources

  • NER Project for Balochi (Github repo)
  • NER Project for Balochi (Github repo)
  • PersoArabicLID — datasets and models for identifying various languages that use Persian/Arabic scripts (specifically including Balochi; includes a dataset with specific examples in all the various languages covered)
  • UniBal — An orthography designed to transcribe and write Balochi language. Includes lots of utilities and apps that use the writing system. (Google Fonts that support Unibal Script)

Useful tools / sister projects

  • tkseem — A tokenisation library (for Arabic)
  • Maha — text processing library for Arabic text

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Low-resource languages

  • low-resource-languages — Resources for conservation, development, and documentation of low resource (human) languages.

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