The Original Derivational Suffixes Of Modern Baluchi (Central Dialect of Iranian Baluchistan)

The present paper tries to study the original derivational suffixes of modern Baluchi language (central dialect of Baluchistan, Iran) which is partly affected by modern Persian. The data are mainly collected through field research since there is a lack of an individual dictionary of the dialect, and are meanwhile compared with two monolingual dictionaries (Seyed Ganj (2000) and Labz Balad (2015)) described in terms of: 1) alphabetical categorization according to Persian alphabet; 2) exemplification of each suffix and derivation of it based on all possible structures; 3) description of their use frequency and of their being borrowed or original, and other certain descriptions based on what the case is. The results show that there are 89 derivational suffixes in the above dialect, and suffixial derivation is one of the most productive word-formation processes in Baluchi language.