Simple Knowledge base Browser - WesternBalochiLanguage

Simple Browser : Welcome guest : log in

[ Home | Graph | ] KB: Language:
Formal Language:

Sigma KEE - WesternBalochiLanguage

KB Term:

western balochi language

The WesternBalochiLanguage is a BalochiLanguage of Pakistan. SIL code: BGN. ISO 639-2: bal. Population: 1,116,000 in Pakistan (1998). Population total all countries: 1,800,000. Region: Northwestern Balochistan Province. Also spoken in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. Alternate names: BALUCHI, BALOCI, BALUCI. Dialects: RAKHSHANI (RAXSHANI), SARAWANI. Comments: Balochi is the official spelling in Pakistan. It has a small body of literature. Literacy rate in first language: 1% to 5%. Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 15%. Urdu script used. Radio programs. Sunni Muslim. Bible portions 1984. Also spoken in: Afghanistan. (Language name: BALOCHI, WESTERN. Population: 200,000 in Afghanistan (1979 estimate). Alternate names: BALUCHI, BALUCI, BALOCI. Dialects: RAKHSHANI (RAXSHANI). Comments: Largely nomadic. Literacy rate in first language: 5% to 10%. Literacy rate in second language: 15% to 25%. Arabic script. Newspapers. Sunni Muslim. Bible portions 1984. Also spoken in: Iran. (Language name: BALOCHI, WESTERN.) Population: 451,000 in Iran, 1% of the population (1986). Alternate names: BALUCHI, BALUCI, BALOCI. Dialects: RAKHSHANI (RAXSHANI), SARAWANI. Comments: Strongly influenced by Fars, but not intelligible with Farsi. Few speak Farsi. Distinct from Eastern and Southern Balochi. Ethnic group: Yarahmadza. Sunni Muslim. Bible portions 1984. Also spoken in: Turkmenistan. (Language name: BALOCHI, WESTERN.) Population: 28,000 in Turkmenistan (1993). Alternate names: BALOCI, BALUCHI, BALUCI. Comments: Turkmen is used as the literary language in Turkmenistan. Distinct from Eastern and Southern Balochi. Muslim. Bible portions 1984.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

Relationships
Instances	balochi language	Of the 53 NorthwesternIranianLanguages, five of these are classified as a BalochiLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	indo european language	There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	indo iranian language	An IndoIranianLanguage is any of 296 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in south Asia and nearby regions.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	iranian language	Of the 296 IndoIranianLanguages, 84 of these are classified as an IranianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	language family	A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	natural language	The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
	northwestern iranian language	Of the 69 WesternIranianLanguages, 53 of these are classified as a NorthwesternIranianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	western iranian language	Of the 84 IranianLanguages, 69 of these are classified as a WesternIranianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
Belongs to Class	entity

Show simplified definition with tree view
Show full definition (without tree view)
Show full definition (with tree view)

Sigma web home Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) web home
Sigma version 3.0 is open source software produced by Articulate Software and its partners