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A repository for resources relating to NLP in the Balochi language
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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](https://huggingface.co/balochiml).



- [General Balochi language](#general-balochi-language)

  - [Textbooks / Language learning resources](#textbooks--language-learning-resources)

  - [Dictionaries / Glossaries](#dictionaries--glossaries)

- [Balochi text data / datasets](#balochi-text-data--datasets)

- [Readers](#readers)

- [Other Balochi materials](#other-balochi-materials)

- [NLP resources](#nlp-resources)

  - [User tools / sister projects](#useful-tools--sister-projects)

- [Papers](#papers)

- [Blog posts / Inspiration](#blog-posts--inspiration)

- [Institutions / Organisations](#institutions--organisations)

- [Low-resource languages](#low-resource-languages)



# General Balochi language



- [Baluchi Language and Literature](https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/baluchistan-iii) — the language entry from Encyclopedia Iranica.

- [The Balochi Language Project](https://www.lingfil.uu.se/forskning/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](https://www.routledge.com/The-Iranian-Languages/Windfuhr/p/book/9780415622356))

- 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](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21520844.2013.831333?journalCode=ujme20))

- 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](https://iranian-languages.arizona.edu/balochi) 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](https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/dames-textbook/) // [full text](https://archive.org/details/textbookofbaloch00damerich)) — Reflects Balochi spoken in Pakistan in the early twentieth century.

- Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sabir (?), Balochi Reader. ([Dunwoody Press hardback](https://www.dunwoodypublishing.com/product-page/balochi-reader) / [audio cds](https://www.dunwoodypublishing.com/product-page/balochi-reader-audio-cd))

- 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](https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/409066) @ 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](https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Baluchi+language%22) — 13 entries as of June 2023.

- Michel Malherbe and Naseebullah (2013). Parlons Baloutche. (in French).

- DLI Headstart: Balochi ([Online course](https://hs2.dliflc.edu/balochi.html))

- DLI GLOSS: Balochi (Online reading + listening materials for study). [Link](https://gloss.dliflc.edu).

- NFLC Graded Exercises and Materials. [Link](https://portal.nflc.umd.edu/lessons/language/balochi). 11 videos and materials for students of the language.

- [DLI Language Survival Kit: Balochi](https://fieldsupport.dliflc.edu/productList.aspx?v=lsk). Basic phrasebooks for US military.

- Okati, Farideh (2012). The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects. ([AbeBooks](https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=21221372929&searchurl=an%3Dokati%2Bfarideh%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dvowel%2Bsystems%2Bfive%2Biranian%2Bbalochi&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1))

- 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](http://www.multilingualbooks.com/balochi.html) // [searchable](https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/mumtaz/))

- Gilbertson, George Waters; Khan, Ghano. English Balochi Colloquial Dictionary [Volume: 1 and 2] (1996).

- Balochi Dictionary (SIL / Uppsala University) c. 2019. [Online](https://www.webonary.org/balochidictionary/). — Southern Balochi: 10868 words. ([Browse English](https://www.webonary.org/balochidictionary/browse/browse-english/) / [Browse Balochi](https://www.webonary.org/balochidictionary/browse/browse-vernacular/)).

- Dashti, Nasser (2021). A Balochi English Dictionary. ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Balochi-English-Dictionary-Naseer-Dashti/dp/1490798463?tag=soumet-20))

- Dr Abdul Ghafoor Jahandideh (?) Persian - Balochi Dictionary. ([Vol 1](https://ia600900.us.archive.org/25/items/BalochiPersianDictionaryVolOne/Balochi%20Persian%20Dictionary%20Vol%20One.pdf) / [Vol 2](https://ia800900.us.archive.org/25/items/BalochiPersianDictionaryVolOne/Balochi%20Persian%20Dictionary%20Vol%20Two.pdf))

- Sayad Ganj سیدگنج - The First Balochi Dictionary ([Github Repo](https://github.com/umairayub79/SayadGanj-Desktop))



# Balochi text data / datasets



- [Balochi-Wordlists](https://github.com/JunaidQadirB/Balochi-Wordlists) — a repository collected by two Balochi speakers ([Junaid Qadir](https://github.com/JunaidQadirB) and [Balach Khan](https://github.com/balach-khan))

- [Balochi Academy Digital Library](https://ebook.balochiacademy.org) — ebooks for download provided by the Balochi Academy

- Pedagogical materials / readers (listed [here](http://salrc.uchicago.edu/workshops/sponsored/121203/resources/balochi_ronkin.htm) and [here](https://balochilinguist.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/teaching-materials-of-balochi-language/))

- [Books in Balochi on Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/booksbylanguage_balochi?tab=about) — 102 books as of June 2023

- [Balochi Library](https://balochlibrary.com)

- The Qur'an in Balochi Translation. ([Various audio](https://www.amazon.com/Balochi-Translation-Ibrahim-Muhammad-Madani/dp/B00YM0L4PE/ref=sr_1_17?sr=8-17&tag=soumet-20&keywords=balochi&dchild=1&qid=1589942632) and [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoO2BPgoarMENaWcvehV35_L1m-XalPot).)

- [Baask.com](http://baask.com/archive/) — portal containing a lot of Balochi language materials.

- The Bible and other Christian religious materials (Audio + texts) in Balochi. ([Link](https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/15034/IR) via the Joshua Project)

- Balochi word list ([Github repo](https://github.com/umairayub79/Balochi-Words)) - 15K+ words gathered to create a formal wordlist.

- [Kissah.org](https://kissah.org) - Stories in Balochi, collated by [Junaid Qadir](https://github.com/JunaidQadirB)



# 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



- Balochi Spelling Bee ([Github repo](https://github.com/umairayub79/Balochi-SpellingBee))



# NLP resources



- NER Project for Balochi ([Github repo](https://github.com/RaihanShakeel/Final-Year-Project))

- NER Project for Balochi ([Github repo](https://github.com/daniyalshakeel5/Named-Entity-Recognation-for-Balochi-Language))

- [PersoArabicLID](https://github.com/sinaahmadi/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](https://github.com/theunibal/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](https://github.com/theunibal/UniBal))



## Useful tools / sister projects



- [tkseem](https://github.com/ARBML/tkseem) — A tokenisation library (for Arabic)

- [Maha](https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha) — text processing library for Arabic text



# Papers



- 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](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.201/)", ACL Anthology.



# Blog posts / Inspiration



- Miranda, Lj (2021), "[Study notes on making word vectors from scratch](https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/12/11/word-vectors/)". ([Also linked](https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-word-embeddings-coding-the-word2vec-algorithm-in-python-using-deep-learning-b337d0ba17a8))

- Miranda, Lj (2022), "[Dependency parsing for a low-resource language (Tagalog)](https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2022/04/24/low-resource-dep-parse/)".

- Bender, Emily M. (2019), "[The #BenderRule: On Naming the Languages We Study and Why It Matters](https://thegradient.pub/the-benderrule-on-naming-the-languages-we-study-and-why-it-matters/)".

- Ahmadi, Sina (2019), "[Why does Kurdish language processing matter?](https://sinaahmadi.github.io/posts/why-kurdish-language-processing-matters.html)"

- Ahmadi, Sina (2019), "[Is Kurdish a less-resourced language?](https://sinaahmadi.github.io/posts/is-kurdish-a-less-resourced-language.html)"

- Strick van Linschoten, Alex (2023-), [Series of posts on NLP & the Balochi language](https://mlops.systems/#category=balochi).

- Benoy, Kurian (2023), [Series of posts on a Malayalam NLP project](https://kurianbenoy.com/blog.html#category=malayalamtextmodels)



# Institutions / Organisations



- [Balochi Academy](https://ebook.balochiacademy.org/about-us) (Quetta, Pakistan)

- [Balochi Language Centre](https://www.lingfil.uu.se/forskning/the-balochi-language-project/) (Uppsala University)

- [Baloch Club, Bahrain](https://www.facebook.com/BalochClubBH/)

- [Iranology Foundation](http://iranology.ir) (Iranshahr, Iran)

- [University of Balochistan](http://www.uob.edu.pk) (Quetta, Pakistan)

- [University of Sistan and Baluchestan](https://www.usb.ac.ir/en) (Zahedan, Iran)



# Low-resource languages



- [low-resource-languages](https://github.com/RichardLitt/low-resource-languages) — Resources for conservation, development, and documentation of low resource (human) languages.