[1] The dialect has several important subdialects and spoken predominantly in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan[2] and Turkmenistan.
three short and five long vowels for the Rakhshani dialect as ə, y, w, a, i, u, e, o (adapted: a, i, u, aː, iː, uː eː, oː).
[5][6] The consonants /p/, /t/, /t̥/, /č/, /k/, /b/, /d/, /d̥/, /ǰ/, /g/, /(ƒ)/, /s/, /š/, /(x)/, /h/, /z/, /ž/, /(ġ)/, /m/, /n/, /r/, /r̥/, /l/, /w/ and /y/ are articulated as alveolar in Western Balochi.
The pronominal suffixes and the present copula, which are enclitic except for the individuation marker -e.[9] For inflected forms of the interrogative pronouns č ē 'what' are stressed on the first syllable.
Verb forms with the prefix b(i) likewise have the stress on the first syllable thus on the first syllable of the stem if the vowel of the prefix is omitted, see and the nominal part of complex predicates takes the phrase stress.
Inflected forms of the interrogative pronouns ce 'what' are stressed on the first syllable, however.
[7] In the Rakhshani dialect, the infinitive noun is often formed from the past participle and ends in -tin.
[7] Western Balochi dialects are moving from a split ergative toward a nominative - accusative ( NOM- ACC ) system.
[14] I am going I went I was leaving I have gone I had gone Some verb constituents have gradually been eliminated from this dialect, but traces of them still exist.