Carina Jahani
Carina Jahani holds the chair of Iranian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She began working on Baloch in the 1980s and defended her thesis, Standardization and Orthography in the Balochi Language, in 1989.38 She has continued her research on Balochi, mainly focusing on grammatical features and sociolinguistic issues, and in 2019 she published a grammatical description of a proposed written standard Balochi language.39 She has supervised a number of PhD theses on Balochi at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, where she also heads the Balochi Language Project.
Stories by this Translator
Oyster Shells
I had not picked up more than ten shells when four uniformed soldiers surrounded me. One tore the bag from my back and shook out the contents onto the ground. I was at a loss what to tell them when the butt of a rifle thudded...
Facing Exile, Facing Taunts
The story of my exile began on that unfortunate day when an ill-fated interest in literature came over me. It seems that every writer I liked had been in exile at some time. Marquez had been, Kundera too. Some had angered the...
Yes, Dear Mother, Your Son is Back in the Mountains
This distress of his was increasing day by day. It felt like a century since he had left his homeland, the Mountains. That homeland, that old country, and the people who live there, even though they were struggling with vario...
The Spoilt Brat and Mullah Weedhead`s Amulet
From the moment I was born and first opened my eyes, I saw that all the people in my family were filled with joy. From all directions, everyone sung my praises with different melodies. As for Auntie, she was so happy she decl...