Please add the language code bal to the list of language codes supported for monolingual text values. This is one of the major languages of Pakistan, particularly in the Balochistan province, as well as a major language in Iran and Afghanistan. It has about 6 million speakers in Pakistan alone, some few million more than that if considering global speakers. There is a lot of referenceable content in Balochi which can be added to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. (For example, see this Balochi glossary/dictionary https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/mumtaz/)

There are codes in the system for some specific dialects of Balochi, but these are of limited utility as most resources do not specify dialect and for aspects of Wikidata like lexemes, the dialect codes are likely to be used just to create duplicate entries of words which would be better included under the main language umbrella if they aren't dialect-specific.

Usage example:
On the language item: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33049
On the Nushki, Balochistan item: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2977118
On the item for the Wikimedia multilingual page for Balochi (linked to Balochi Wikisource): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105659170

Please allow this to be used in the Wikidata termbox and lexemes as well; as I understand it this is possible if added correctly.

For reasons outlined here, it would also be useful to have the codes available with certain subtags: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Languages/bal#Orthographies

• bal-pk
• bal-ir
• bal-latn
• bal-cyrl-tm