A repository for resources relating to NLP in the Balochi language. A companion resource is the Huggingface Balochi Machine Learning organisation.
- General Balochi language
- Balochi text data / datasets
- Readers
- Other Balochi materials
- NLP resources
- Papers
- Blog posts / Inspiration
- Institutions / Organisations
- Low-resource languages
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-Wordlists — a repository collected by two Balochi speakers (Junaid Qadir and Balach Khan)
- Balochi Academy Digital Library — ebooks for download provided by the Balochi Academy
- Pedagogical materials / readers (listed here and here)
- Books in Balochi on Archive.org — 102 books as of June 2023
- Balochi Library
- The Qur'an in Balochi Translation. (Various audio and here.)
- Baask.com — portal containing a lot of Balochi language materials.
- The Bible and other Christian religious materials (Audio + texts) in Balochi. (Link via the Joshua Project)
- Balochi word list (Github repo) - 15K+ words gathered to create a formal wordlist.
- Kissah.org - Stories in Balochi, collated by Junaid Qadir
- 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."
- Balochi Spelling Bee (Github repo)
- 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)
- Michael A. Hedderich, Lukas Lange, Heike Adel, Jannik Strötgen, Dietrich Klakow (2021), "A Survey on Recent Approaches for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios", ACL Anthology.
- Miranda, Lj (2021), "Study notes on making word vectors from scratch". (Also linked)
- Miranda, Lj (2022), "Dependency parsing for a low-resource language (Tagalog)".
- Bender, Emily M. (2019), "The #BenderRule: On Naming the Languages We Study and Why It Matters".
- Ahmadi, Sina (2019), "Why does Kurdish language processing matter?"
- Ahmadi, Sina (2019), "Is Kurdish a less-resourced language?"
- Strick van Linschoten, Alex (2023-), Series of posts on NLP & the Balochi language.
- Benoy, Kurian (2023), Series of posts on a Malayalam NLP project
- Balochi Academy (Quetta, Pakistan)
- Balochi Language Centre (Uppsala University)
- Baloch Club, Bahrain
- Iranology Foundation (Iranshahr, Iran)
- University of Balochistan (Quetta, Pakistan)
- University of Sistan and Baluchestan (Zahedan, Iran)
- low-resource-languages — Resources for conservation, development, and documentation of low resource (human) languages.