| Bashkardi | |
| Also Known As: | Southern Bashkardi |
| Nativename: | Molki Gāl |
| States: | Iran |
| Speakers: | 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 language[1] [2] 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,[3] and has been classified as a dialect of the neighboring Garmsiri (Bandari) language.[4] [5]
The Bashkardi varieties spoken further inland may not all fall into either Northern or Southern Bashkardi.[5]