The Issue of Registering Places in Balochistan

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Faculty Member of Persian Language and Literature, Velayat University, Iranshahr, Iran

10.22103/jis.2025.24753.2692

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The difference and conflict between the administrative names of cities and villages in Balochistan with their original forms is one of the important issues that has not been addressed so far. This research wants to raise this issue in scientific and cultural forums. The data of this article have been obtained by field study and have been reviewed in the documents. This issue, in addition to causing confusion in their pronunciation and writing, has reduced the efficiency and cultural value of those names, willy-nilly. The names of the regions are an important part of the history and civilization of Iran, which have reached our times in Balochistan, mostly through the Balochi branch of the Iranian language family. Giving importance or not paying attention to preserving the originality of places is a sign of the way we deal with the history and culture of Iran. One of the most prominent inaccuracies in the administrative registration of place names can be mentioned those names that are registered contrary to the grammatical rules of Balochi and Persian languages and are considered misspellings. This situation causes a mistake in the pronunciation and as a result a wrong meaning association. Multiple spellings of the same name, disregarding the historical spelling, registering an incorrect Persian translation or a part of it instead of its original form, and inappropriate use of Arabic letters are some of the most prominent cases of problems in registering these names.

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