Abstract
Brahui an indigenous language in the sub-continent belongs from the North Western group of Dravidian languages also known as Brohi, Birahui, Brahvi, Biroki, Brahuigi Kurdi, this language is spoken in the central parts of Balochistan, interior Sindh province in Pakistan and in the Sistan o Balochistan province of Iran, Helmund and Nimroz provinces of Afghanistan, and in the Gulf States. The exact figure about number of Brahui people is not available although according to a rough estimate there are about three million people in the world who speak Brahui. Brahui was used only as an oral language until the post-colonial period in Balochistan. There was no tradition of Brahui as a medium of instruction or as a written language. In this paper the evaluation of Brahui literature particularly its folk and classical literature will be discussed. The interesting version of the paper is that the authors will try to reply the question that who were the people who had created the folk songs, folk stories in Brahui The paper further discusses the reasons why Brahui adopted different orthography styles during the course of history
Waheed Razzaq, Abdul Haleem Sadiq, Yousuf Ali Rodeni, Muhammad Yousaf. (2013) A Brief Sketch of Brahui Classical and Folk Literature, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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