Bandari has loanwords from various European languages(e.g. tawāl,"towel") and some from Arabic(e.g. atā,"to come"),
Persian and Balochi.
Other regional languages, such as Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi, Pashayi
and Nuristani are spoken by minority groups across the country.
Azerbaijani is spoken primarily and widely in the northwest, Kurdish primarily in the west as well as Luri, Mazandarani and Gilaki at the Caspian
Sea coastal regions, Arabic primarily in the Persian Gulf coastal regions, Balochi primarily in the desolate and remote far southeast,
and Turkmen primarily in northern border regions.