At the lexical level, it seems to share vocabulary largely with the Sindhi languages,[2] which are the source of other Indo-Aryan migrations to the Middle East such as Luwati in Oman.
Attributive adjectives follow the head noun, unlike other Indo-Aryan languages.
[3] Kholosi has noun-suffixed postpositions (e.g. the genitive marker -jo which agrees with the gender of the possessor) as characteristic of Indo-Aryan languages.
[3] Kholosi has roughly twice the number of Indo-Aryan terms in its basic lexicon than Iranian borrowings.
The primary source of Iranian borrowings is Persian, but Larestani and Bandari (in the same geographical area) also appear to have contributed vocabulary.