ABSTRACT
This research aims to compare the attitudes of Balochistan’s youth towards indigenous language i.e. Brahui in comparison to Urdu and English. It explores instrumental and integrative motivations of participants towards these languages. The study adopted quantitative paradigm, a questionnaire as a research instrument. The data was collected from 90 participants of Brahui speakers. The data was analyzed by the SPSS program through frequency and mean analysis. The study concludes that participants’ attitudes were positive towards English language, neutral to Urdu language and negative towards Brahui language. The participants showed highly positive (instrumental and integrative) motivation towards Brahui vs Urdu languages. This study also determines other dominant languages spoken in Balochistan that are Balochi and Pashto.
