SPECIMENS 



OF 



IHE BALOCHI LANGUAGE. 



I. 



The Wanderings of tlie Bind Baloclns. 



[This poem is very widely spread, and I have met with it in ahifiost 

 every Ualocli ti'ibe. The versions differ very slightly. The present one, 

 as the dedication in the last two lines shows, was recited to Jalal KJian a 

 former Chief of the Le_yiaris. Another version, from a Gurchani Dom, 

 similarly brings in the name Nilial KJrdn. The poem is probably of consi- 

 derable age ; it is very elliptical in expression, many of the grammatical 

 forms are antiquated, and the versification is loose and formless. It gives 

 the legendary account of the Wanderings of the Baloches before they 

 settled in the countries they now inhabit, distinguishes the tribes entitled 

 to rank as Rinds from those not so entitled, and concludes with a catalogue 

 of their leaders.] 



Shukr Allah hamda guzara 



badshah mulka w^then 

 Thi jihan khak o gilo bi 



ITeku nindo wash-dila. 

 Ma auliid Mir Hamzai^/<-u?i 



Sob dargaha gur eii 

 Azh Halaba. phat^A kbayswi 



go jazizaw jheroera 

 Masara Miren Jalal Ha?f 



chhil-o-chyar bolak en 

 Kalabala Bompiir ma nya«wiL;< 



shahr Shistan niizile 

 KhiU-//tu« Harina banda 



Kech raste?J phalawa 



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