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Baluch
Rugs: Antique Timuri or Baluch Balisht
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Aimaq or Chahar Aymaq - (BARBARI, BERBERI,
CHAHAR-AIMAQ, CHAR AIMAQ) [AIQ] 480,000 in Afghanistan (1993); 800,000
in all countries, including 1,000 Jamshidi (1978 MARC). Central
northwest Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Tajikistan (Jamshidi and
Khazara).
- Dialects: TAIMURI (TEIMURI, TIMURI, TAIMOURI),
TAIMANI, ZOHRI (ZURI), JAMSHIDI (JAMSHEDI, DJAMCHIDI,
YEMCHIDI, DZHEMSHID), FIROZKOHI, MALIKI, MIZMAST, CHINGHIZI, QEDAI NAO
HAZARA AIMAQ, ZAINAL, KHAZARA. Agriculturalists, pastoralists. Hanafi
Sunni Muslim.
HAZARAGI (HAZARA, HEZAREH, HEZARE'I) [HAZ]
Estimates of the Hazara are as low as 1,403,000 in Afghanistan (1989),
283,000 in Iran (1993); 1,756,000 or more in all countries. But I think
the real number is closer to 6,000,000 mostly in Afghanistan. Central
Afghanistan mountains between Kabul and Herat (Hazarajat), in Kabul, in
area between Maimana and Sari-Pul, in settlements in north Afghanistan,
in Baluchestan and near Quetta in Pakistan. Some have moved to northern
Iran.
Also in Tajikistan. I tend to attribute more to
the Hazara then most people. When I was in the rug business I saw a
great deal of goods that I could attribute to the Hazara. By the use of
Anchor rugs and technical comparison I was forced to conclude that a
significant proportion of the Afghan Baluch type is really Hazara.
- Ethnic group names are (Central) Dai Kundi, Dai
Zangi, Behsud, Yekaulang, (Southern) Polada, Urusgani, Jaguri, Ghazni
Hazaras, Dai Miradad. Agriculturalists, semi-sedentary pastoralists.
Imami Shi'a Muslim.
FARSI, EASTERN (PERSIAN, DARI, PARSI) [PRS]
5,600,000, 25% of population (1992); Various Dari dialects in Khorasan
Province (Iran), and provinces of Herat, Hazarajat, Balkh, Ghor,
Ghazni, Budaksham, Panjsher, and Galcha-Pamir Mountains and Kabul
regions. Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern,
Persian.
Dialects: DARI (AFGHAN FARSI, HERATI, TAJIKI,
KABOLI, KABULI, KHORASANI), PARSIWAN.
Phonological and lexical differences between Iran
and Afghanistan cause little difficulty in comprehension. Most Afghan
dialects are closer to literary Persian than Iranian dialects are to
literary Persian. Sunni and Shi'a Muslim. 70 Jews (1980) speak the same
dialect as Muslims. (My Interviews with refugees supports Farsiwan as
an alternative to Parsiwan and is phonetically closer to the way people
who identified them selves as Farsiwan said it.JBOC)
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Afgh.html
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