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1
Balochi is classified under which branch of the Iranian languages?
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Balochi is grouped with the Northwestern branch of the Iranian languages based on historical and structural linguistic features.
2
Which dialect is commonly regarded as the principal literary or prestige dialect of Balochi?
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Rakhshani is widely recognized as the major literary and prestige dialect of Balochi used in written and standard forms.
3
Which script has historically been and remains most commonly used for Balochi literary writing?
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Balochi literary texts are most commonly written in a modified Perso-Arabic script adapted from Persian/Urdu orthography.
4
Which of the following figures is best known as a prominent Balochi poet and progressive political leader?
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Mir Gul Khan Naseer is celebrated both for his Balochi poetry and his prominent role in progressive politics and cultural leadership.
5
What is the dominant basic word order in Balochi syntax?
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Balochi, like many Iranian languages, typically follows an SOV word order in its sentence structure.
6
Which language has exerted the most significant historical lexical and cultural influence on Balochi?
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Persian has been the primary source of lexical borrowing and literary influence on Balochi over centuries.
7
Which of the following is NOT a grammatical feature of Balochi?
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Balochi does not mark grammatical gender in the noun system, unlike languages that distinguish masculine and feminine genders.
8
The traditional heroic epic of Balochi literature famously centers on conflict between which two tribal groups?
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The legendary Rind–Lashari conflicts form a central theme in classical Balochi heroic epic tradition.
9
In Perso-Arabic orthographies adapted for Balochi, which character is typically used to represent the glottal stop (or its orthographic equivalent)?
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The hamza is the conventional Perso-Arabic character used to denote a glottal stop or related orthographic functions in adapted Balochi script.
10
Which of the following research topics would most directly align with the Balochi optional syllabus for a CSS-style paper?
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A structural and comparative study of a major Balochi dialect directly pertains to language and literature topics covered in the Balochi syllabus.
