Balochi is an ancient language of the Hindu Kush similar to Kurdish (Medes) of the Fertile Crescent far to the northwest and Sanskrit of the Indus Valley just to the south, the language of Madai a son of Japheth whose progeny brought the language to the Indus Valley Civilization by way of sites such as Mehrgarh and Nahsharo, in Baluchistan, and Madai said the ancestor of the Kachin tribe of Burma.