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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