)[4] Sulaimani found mainly in eastern Balochistan, covering parts of Pakistan, particularly in areas like Quetta, Kalat, Khuzdar,[10] Sindh and Punjab.
Eastern Hill Balochi dialects are spoken in the areas of the Marri, Bugti, Leghari, and Mazari tribes.
[7] Mansel Longworth Dames, Portuguese language scholar was the first to study this dialect and called it Northern Balochi.
[13] It is mentioned that with the passage of time and contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan languages, the phenomenon of nasalization in Eastern Balochi has emerged.
[16][17][18] Nasalization is phonemic in the eastern balochi and that caused by the effect of Indo-Aryan languages, like Sulaimani dialect that has borrowed a few sounds from them.
In Eastern Balochi, it is noted that the stop and glide consonants may also occur as aspirated allophones in word initial position as [pʰ tʰ ʈʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ] and [wʱ].
[19] The complete set off, ʃ, β, x, ɣ, ǧ , it is present as regular phonemes in eastern balochi.