Carina Jahani (Balochi: کارینا جہانی) is a Swedish linguist and Iranologist who works as a professor of Iranian Languages at Uppsala University.
[3] Due to her research and services in the field of the Balochi language, Jahani has been given the title of "The stepdaughter of Balochistan".
][4] Born in 1959, province of Småland in southern Sweden, Jahani attended the University of Uppsala, receiving her PhD in 1989 with a thesis titled "Standardization and Script System in the Balochi Language".
[7][4] After the Iranian Revolution, Jahani studied at the University of Tehran for a year, but left Iran due to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.
[4] Jahani cites her interest and fascination with the Balochi language to the oral literature, myths, and beautiful and instructive stories hidden in the hearts of the old men and women of this ancient land.