An inimitable
treasure based on words originated by humans as a tactic of communication, a
Language may perhaps be as essential as the other necessitates for life to
sustain. Language is the possession which perhaps more than any other
attributes distinguishes humans from other animals. Analysts articulate that being
a social creature, humans need to express their thoughts, expressions,
believes, opinions in addition to ideas. In today’s world, assuming life devoid
of a particular language might be the weirdest thing to think about.
Predominantly in the early times, a language was
only a mean of communication for daily basis. But humans' needs increased with
the passage of time. To pass on social, civil, political, traditional,
cultural, religious and ideological thoughts most languages in the world got
their unique form as written. There might be innumerable facts that we don’t
know yet about the nature and the origin of language but the science of
linguists and their investigations throughout the history present that the
analysis of spoken languages dates back to more than thousands of years in
Mesopotamia, Babylon or other ancient places.
However
not all writings of pre-historic times could be preserved but fortuitously several
could. Today, a number of historical languages that could survive might either
had tremendously evolved, had been influenced by other languages or remained
alive with a few minor modifications.
Surveys and excavations carried out under
difficult conditions in eastern and western Balochistan in the twentieth
century, brought outstanding quality of prehistoric aesthetic concepts about
Balochi language, which were previously unknown. Along with the results
obtained by excavated materials and other researches, Syed Zahoor Shah Hashimi,
perhaps the greatest Balochi writer and researcher opened new doors of
knowledge about Balochi language that dates back to prehistoric times. Balochi
as a language being a historical inheritance of the ancestors had might taken
the place to identify and represent the specific race that lives through out Balochistan
known as Baloch. This particular race is among those semi-civilized and
historic races that hadn’t got much attention from prominent scholars and so
has its language.
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It might be something very astounding to know that
researcher found out that Balochi’s ancient alphabets which are known as
"Achaemenian Inscription" or Khat-e-Maikhi” (The inscription of
nails). By their manifestation, they might seem like nails. Incontestably, the earliest
in history if Balochi language was written, that had been the time of
Achaemenian Empire in Persia before 5th centaury B.C (550-330 B.C).
Fourteen
hundred years from today, after the spread of Islam numerous Muslim countries initiated
the use of Arabic inscriptions, in the mean time Balochi adopted the Arabic inscription
as well. Today, Balochi's three main dialects are known as Makurani, Sulaimani
and Rakhshani.
Balochi
doesn’t contain any phonetics that might be hard to pronounce where as a number
of languages do such as Persian, Urdu or Arabic. Though the accent may sound distinct,
but the non-natives learn the mother tongue of Balochs real soon.
Balochs,
have always been thought to be distant populace of Arabs, likewise Balochi as a
language had been thought to be derived from Persian. But neither Balochs were
Arabs nor had their language ever been same as Persian. Considerably, Balochi
sounds a lot like Persian and numerous words of Persian are quite similar to
Balochi as well but both are still contradictory to each other.
Some of examples of the similar words are as
follows:
Persian Balochi English
Shutur Oshtir Cammel
Sapeed Ispeet
White
Shitaap Ishtaap Hurry
Brishum Abrishum Wool
The reason for a bit similarity is because
Balochi and Persian both have been derived from the same root or parent language
known as Awesta. Though, Balochs had lived with Persians from birth but Persian
language had never got dominancy over Balochi. There is no doubt that in the history,
the number of Balochs in Persia wasn't less than the other races living there
including Persians, Kurds, Loris, Aramans, and Turks. The descendents of these
races still have dominancy over Iran's today's population.
Similarly, evolving of Languages is not a new
thing to be familiar of. Time truly made some minor difference in Balochi; how
it looks, sounds or is spoken. After a tremendous amount of researches the
linguists found numerous written words in caves and on excavated materials
found in Behistan, Iran. In Achaemenian inscription some of the famous lines written
in the Darvash and Kashyarash's memorable books are:
In today’s Balochi it is: 
Syed
Zahoor Shah Hashmi and some other linguists argue that these lines sound more
like Balochi than Persian.
The researches carried out through out Iran amenably
opened innovative doors of incomparable information in relation to Balochi
Language. The previous hypothesis which defined Balochi language as part of
Persian was proved fictitious after the research on Achaemenian Inscription.
Most words found on the excavated materials and caves have been found as
Balochi, this made the linguists believe that Balochi is even more ancient than
Persian but later they found about Awesta language as well which the root of
Balochi along with Perian is.
Akamanshi,
a popular rular of Zartusht period of time who is assumed as one of the most
famous rulers of that time might had one of the greatest empires in the Persia
and a lot more regions including eastern Balochistan, some parts of Turkey and several
other regions as well. Some of lines from the Achaemenian rulers’ memories
either written in caves or on stones, from 5th centaury BC are as follows:
In today’s Balochi it is:
The considerable fact is
whether Balochi was the language of those great sovereigns? It is indubitably a
possibility. Due to the writings of that time, we can’t deny from the veracity
that Balochi may perhaps had been either the language of those great rulers, or
had been the official or the popular language of that time.
The ancientness of Balochi language can also
be assumed through the well-known incidence which occurred after the collapse
of the Roman Empire and the commencement of the spreading of Islam (900 AD). When
our beloved last Prophet Mohammed (P.B.U.H) got prophetess and was illustrated
by the Lord to preach the message of peace. Letters to the heads of empires
were sent through out the world. Several accepted Islam, where as some contradicted
such as the Persian ruler Khasro. He tore the sacrosanct letter sent by the
Prophet. Later the great empire of Khasro collapsed and with the passage of
time his own daughter accepted Islam. According to a historical book of Iran,
Khasro’s daughter was asked about the reason of her father’s great empire’s
collapse. Her reply in one sentence was quoted by the writers of that time.
She responded:
In today’s Balochi it
would be:
The words said by her are
95% alike today’s Balochi, which delineates the possibility of either Khasro or
his wife relating to Baloch tribes.
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Through the prehistoric writings of Balochi
language, it is verified that Balochi probably had some minor changes with the
course of time but didn’t utterly evolve. It was of course written by utilizing
the “Achaemenian Inscription” in the prehistoric times, but with the Arabic
inscription for the first time if Balochi was written, that was after the time
of the great Baloch ruler “Meer Chaker Rind” who ruled the race for about
seventy years. The Rind tribe of Balochs is known as the pioneer of Baloch
classical and chivalric age. Extensive poetry which defined Meer Chaker’s main
characteristics such as; courageousness, high traditions and bravery were passed
on generations to generations. Extraordinary facts about Balochi Language can
also be all that poetry related to each historical war, anecdote or any incident
that occurred after or even years before “The Rind Period” (1450-1650 AD) and were
remembered through poems.
Being a poet of unmatched
excellence, Meer Chakar was a great representative of all Baloch virtues and
vices. The nineteenth centaury famous poet Mohammed Khan Gishkori, pays a
tribute to the Rind ruler and his age.
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“Amir (Chief) Chakar was
the king of Balochs, He was chief of the Rind, had him an army of forty
thousand strong;
His fury wrought more
havoc than the Demon’s disaster could, (Under his reign) the name of Balochs
equaled in fame to that mighty monarchs”.
By some means it can’t be
erroneous to name a specific language as the base of unison and synergy of
nations. Beliefs might unify different nations to some extends but anyhow a region’s
language unifies a particular race more than any other vitality or dynamism.
Unambiguously, Balochi as an ancient language has remained the base factor of
the unison of the particular race from the prehistoric era to today and
expectantly till tomorrow.
References:
“Balochi zuban o adab ki tareekh” by Syad
Zahoor Shah Hashmi
“Literary History of the
Balochis” by Mohammed Sardar Khan Baloch
“An Introduction to Language by
Victoria Fromkin, David Blair and Peter Collins
Great Work Mariyamm :-)
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