Investigating the Influence of English on Balochi, Following the Colonization of Balochistan: Morphology (Bamposhti dialect; a subdialect of Sarawani dialect)

Abstract

There are not many words in Balochi which have analogous equivalents in English, but even the small numbers of them make people think there is a relationship between the two languages of Balochiand English. This research aimed to investigate if the colonization of Balochistan had an impact on the Balochi language (Bamposhti dialect) in the case of morphology.There are not many words in Bamposhti Balochi which have equivalents in English being similar to them in terms of pronunciation; 18 of these words,were investigated in this research. The investigation on these words revealed a shocking result. Only 4 (%22.2) of the words which were investigated on, found to be English loanwords. The data collected in this research proves the idea that there is a relationship between Balochi and English in the case of morphology. It also proves that the colonization of Balochistanis the reason of which Balochi has English words (loanwords).