Baluchi (Balochi) is an Iranian language with around 8 million speakers, primarily in Pakistan's Balochistan province, southeastern Iran, and southwestern Afghanistan. The Baloch are a traditionally pastoral, decentralised people whose homeland has been divided across three modern states — a recurring factor in the asylum cases that dominate our Baluchi translation work. The US Baloch-speaking community is very small but growing, particularly in the Northern Virginia and Los Angeles areas. Baluchi is typically written in Perso-Arabic script with several language-specific letters.