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- ↑ Bashkardi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ see M. Mayrhofer, in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. R. Schmitt, Wiesbaden, 1988, forthcoming, and G. Windfuhr, ibid
- ↑ Schmitt, Rüdiger, ed. (1989). Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (in German). Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 3-88226-413-6.
- ↑ Skjærvø, Prods Oktor (1988). "Baškardi". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica . London and New York: Routledge. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
From what has been published it would seem that North Baškardi is more closely related to its western relatives than to South Baškardi.
- ↑ Habib Borjian, “Kerman Languages”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 16, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 301-315.
- 1 2 Erik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali & Amos Hayes (2019) The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI). Iranian Studies 52. A Working Classification
