[7] After conducting phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical studies, Elfenbein, first divided the Balochi dialects into six branches.
[16][12] It's Spoken in the southern parts of Balochistan, including coastal areas like Gwadar, Chabahar, and southern Pakistan,[3] Persian Gulf states, expanding up to Iranshahr in Iran and Kech valley and Karachi in Pakistan.
[8][5] Lashari[8] centered on the village of Lashar , south of Iranshahr where Balochi close to Persian and Baskardi.
[8] Coastal dialects[17][18] Including Qasr-e Qand, Nikshahr, Rask and the southern coastal areas of Balochistan from near Bandar Abbas to Karachi Port, including the ports of Chahbahar, Gwadar, Pasni.
[20] 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.
Makrani dialect, the presence of minimal pairs such as [iehd] - [iḳd] or [suek] - [suk] easily shows that each compound vowel can be placed as a single, independent phoneme in the center of a syllable and create new word with semantic distinction.
[20] Southern dialects as in Lashari Balochi the place of stress depends on the weight of the syllable.
[21] The southern balochi has genitive singular -ē and the object is marked with --ānā(rā) , -ânā or -ānrā.