Corpus of the Balochi Dialects : Coastal

The aim of the present study is to build a digital annotated corpus of oral narrations of the Coastal Balochi dialect. The oral texts that are annotated in this study are of two genres: folktales and biographical tales. The stories that are annotated were recorded during several field trips to Iran. The first section of the book provides an overview of the geographical distribution of Coastal Balochi speakers, situating the Coastal Balochi dialect within the broader Balochi language. This is followed by a brief discussion of the data collected. Of particular note is the fact that the storytellers are typically monolinugal, bilingual or multilingual. The second section of the book presents six texts that have been interlinearized using the FLEx program. This book forms part of a series dedicated to the publication of oral texts from various Balochi dialects.