EURPhon: Eastern Hill Balochi

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Iranic

Lat/lon: 29.0, 69.0

ISO code: bgp

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	pʰ, b, bʰ				tʰ, d, dʰ		ʈʰ, ɖ, ɖʰ		kʰ, g, gʰ
tap					ɾ		ɽ
fricative	β		f	θ, ð	s, z	ʃ, ʒ			x, ɣ	h
affricate						tʃʰ, dʒ, dʒʰ
nasal	m				n		ɳ
approximant		wʰ	ʋ					j
lateral approximant					l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
near-close	ɪ		ʊ
open		ä

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
close-mid	eː		oː
open		äː

Long nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩː		ũː
close-mid	ẽː		õː
open		ä̃ː

Short nasalised series

	front	back
near-close	ɪ̃	ʊ̃

Diphthongs

/æɪ̯/, /ɔʊ̯/, /æ̃ɪ̯̃/, /ɔ̃ʊ̯̃/

Source: Elfenbein, Josef. 1997. Balochi phonology. Kaye, Alan S., and Peter T. Daniels (eds.) Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus). Vol. 1, 761–776. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns

Comments: /ʔ/ and /q/ are found in careful educated speech. /β/ is marginally phonemic. Although /bʰ/, /gʰ/, /dʰ/, /dʒʰ/, /ɖʰ/, /wʰ/ are called non-phonemic in Elfenbein 1997, their occurence is not predictable.