rec. of The Baloch and their neighbours. Ethnic and linguistic contact in Balochistan in historical and modern times. Ed. by Carina Jahani and Agnes Korn in coop. with Gunilla Gren-Eklund. Wiesbaden: Reichert 2003

A series of papers read on the occasion of an international Symposium held in Uppsala (August 2000), published in the relevant Proceedings, are commented on, emphasizing different subjects as language contact during the centuries, linguistic interference and inner-Pakistani emigration, the linguistic position of Balochi within the Iranian languages, etc. Original remarks and unpublished materials and scientific judgements are included.