Bashkardi language

{{Short description|Iranian language spoken in southeast Iran}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Bashkardi

|altname=Southern Bashkardi

|nativename=Molki Gāl

|states=Iran

|speakers={{sigfig|7030|2}} all Bashkardi

|ethnicity=Bashkardi

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Indo-Iranian

|fam3=Iranian

|fam4=Western Iranian

|fam5=Southwestern

|iso3=bsg

|iso3comment=(for all Bashkardi)

|glotto=bash1263

|glottoname=Bashkardi

}}

Southern Bashkardi or Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern "Bashaka", is a Southwestern Iranian languagesee M. Mayrhofer, in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. R. Schmitt, Wiesbaden, 1988, forthcoming, and G. Windfuhr, ibid{{Cite book|editor-last=Schmitt|editor-first=Rüdiger|title=Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum|publisher=Reichert|location=Wiesbaden|year=1989|ISBN=3-88226-413-6|language=de}} spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan. The language is closely related to Garmsiri, Larestani 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,{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Baškardi|author-last=Skjærvø|author-first=Prods Oktor|author-link=Prods Oktor Skjaervo|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|year=1988|publisher=Routledge|place=London and New York|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/baskardi-basakerdi-collective-designation-for-numerous-dialects-spoken-in-southeastern-iran-from-bandar-e-abbas-eastwar|access-date= December 30, 2018| quote="From what has been published it would seem that North Baškardi is more closely related to its western relatives than to South Baškardi."}}

and has been classified as a dialect of the neighboring Garmsiri ({{aka}} Bandari) language.Habib Borjian, “Kerman Languages”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 16, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 301-315. [https://www.academia.edu/24297004/Kermans_Languages_1._Persian_2._Garmsiri_Language_type_]Erik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali & Amos Hayes (2019) The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI). Iranian Studies 52. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13HM6ElEb3cPqf4FWxYVc8LqRrvFsyu0mGXXqaawgXWk/pub#ftnt142 A Working Classification]

The Bashkardi varieties spoken further inland may not all fall into either Northern or Southern Bashkardi.