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	Brahui - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The khan of Kalat, the native ruler of Baluchistan, is himself a Brahui, and a lineal descendant of Kumbar, former chief of the Kumbarini, a Brahui tribe.
		A relationship between the Jats and the Brahuis has been suggested, and it is generally held that the former were of Scythic stock.
		Probably the Brahuis are of Dravidian stock, a branch long isolated from their kindred and much Arabized, and thus exhibiting a marked hybridism.
	34.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRAHUI.htm (622 words)

	LEARN ABOUT THEIR LIVES AND CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Brahui are a confederation of 29 tribes united by language, culture, and
		Brahui have the reputation of being fierce tribes of strong desert men who submit to no law but their own.
		One thing that marks the Brahui tribes as a separate people – distinct from their Baloch cousins and from all other peoples – is their language, called Brahui or Brahuidi.
	www.peopleteams.org /brahui/lives_culture.htm (1600 words)

	Balochistan also spelled BALUCHISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The racial cognation of the Brahui with various peoples has been sought on the basis of faint archaeological evidence; nor is it uncommon to refer to a supposed similarity in place-names or identical sounds in certain words in proposing a racial kinship among ancient peoples.
		'Brahui' has also been identified as antonym of Narohi, the inhabitants of tfte plains; or since the Brahui came from Burzkoh, al Burz, under Ibrahim, it is suggested they were at first called Brahimi after their leader, Ibrahim or Braho, which ultimately changed to Brahui.
		The argument that the Brahuis are the remnants of a Dravidian people, driven out of India by invading Aryan hordes, is thus baseless; nor we have any proof whatsoever that the Brahuis are a people inhabiting their present abode since the ancient past.
	members.chello.se /balochistaninfo/balochistannegar2004.htm (4563 words)

	OPF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Jats, in spite of the influx of Brahuis and Baluch, to this day compose the cultivating classes of Lasbela and Kachi; some of the Kurks, whose insolence led to the final subjugation of Sindh by the Arabs, are still to be found in the Jau valley in the Jhelawan.
		The term "Brahui" may represent a special set of tribes whose origin is still obscure and whose language (though Dravidian) has dominated and finally absorbed the language of other tribes.
		The assimilation of the Brahuis by the Baluchis is attested by the Brahuis' active participation in the Baluchi national movement.
	www.opf.org.pk /almanac/P/people.htm (9055 words)

	Brahui language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brahui language, spoken by the Brahui, is mainly spoken in Balochistan, Pakistan, although it is also spoken in Afghanistan and Iran.
		Brahui was often considered to be a remnant of a formerly more widespread Dravidian language family that was reduced during the Indo-Aryan migration.
		It was also sometimes speculated that Brahui might be a direct legacy of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brahui_language (295 words)

	Brahui language
		The Brahui language is mainly spoken in Balochistan, Pakistan, although also in Afghanistan and Iran.
		Although it is a Dravidian language, it has been heavily influenced by other languages spoken in the area and shares few words with the Dravidian languages spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka.
		It's sometimes speculated that the use of the Brahui language in Pakistan is a legacy of the Indus Valley Civilisation, and that its separation from the other Dravidian languages indicates they were formerly much more widely spread.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/br/Brahui_language.html (134 words)

	Thomas Braidwood - LoveToKnow 1911
		THOMAS BRAIDWOOD (1715-1806), British teacher of the deaf and dumb, was born in Scotland in 1715, and educated at Edinburgh University.
		Sajdi, another Brahui tribal name, is Scythian, the principal clan of which tribe is the Saga, both names being identifiable with the Sagetae and Saki of ancient writers.
		This school was the model for all of the early English institutions of the kind.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thomas_Braidwood (170 words)

	Brahui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Brahui language is spoken in Pakistan (mainly in the Kalat and Hairpur regions), Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.
		The total number of Brahui speakers is estimated to be approximately 2,000,000 people.
		All Brahuis are bilingual: in addition to the Brahui language, most of them speak Baluchi
	www.flw.com /languages/brahui.htm (46 words)

	Afghanistan Brahui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Sunni Brahui is another distinctive group settled in the desert areas ofsouthwestern Afghanistan.
		The basic Brahuiphysical type is Veddoid of South India, and they speak Brahui which is alliedto Dravidian, a major language of South India, with a heavy mixture of Balulchiand Pashto.
		Brahui mostly work as tenant farmers or hired herders for Baluch orPushtun khans.
	www.country-studies.com /afghanistan/brahui.html (83 words)

	Language Log: An Escape from Election News into Brahui
		This took me to one of the books I inherited from my father, the atheist son of a Methodist missionary to British India -- specifically Baluchistan, which is now in Pakistan -- early in the 20th century.
		According to the 1992 edition of the Ethnologue, the three varieties of Baluchi are spoken by a total of 5,230,000 people in seven different countries (but mostly in Pakistan); as of 1987, Jagdali had `a few thousand' speakers, all in Baluchistan.
		Brahui, the northernmost Dravidian language, has 1,710,000 speakers in three countries, but mostly in Pakistan.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001619.html (402 words)

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		This difference and the high frequency of haplogroup 28 in the Baluch (29%) make a predominantly Syrian origin for their Y chromosome unlikely, and the admixture estimate was 0% (table 3), although the 8% frequency for haplogroup 21, the highest identified in Pakistan thus far, does indicate some western contribution to their Y lineages.
		The Brahuis have a possible origin in West Asia (Hughes-Buller 1991) and it has been suggested that a spread of haplogroup 9 Y chromosomes was associated with the expansion of Dravidian-speaking farmers (Quintana-Murci et al.
		Brahuis have the highest frequency of haplogroup 9 chromosomes in Pakistan (28%) after the Parsis, providing some support for this hypothesis, but their higher frequency of haplogroup 3 (39%) is not typical of the Fertile Crescent (Quintana-Murci et al.
	www.geocities.com /anon_nord/y-pakistan.htm (7076 words)

	Andronov: Brahui, a Dravidian Language [Indologica]
		The Brahui phonemes are traced to their Old Dravidian sources, the origins of case Suffixes and other nominal desinences are expounded, the Brahui numerals and pronouns are also traced to their ancient archetypes, and so are the personal suffixes of the verb.
		However, Brahui suffered the greatest losses in its vocabulary, where the layer of Dravidian words is remarkably thin.
		The position of Brahui within the Dravidian family and its relationship ties with kindred languages are discussed at large in the final chapter.
	indologica.blogg.de /eintrag.php?id=1020 (369 words)

	Dravidian languages — FactMonster.com
		Brahui, another of the Dravidian group, has close to 1 million speakers, in Baluchistan.
		It is thought that the Dravidian tongues are derived from a language spoken in India prior to the invasion of the Aryans c.1500 B.C. Dravidian languages are noted for retroflex and liquid sound types.
		Brahui, however, is recorded in the Arabic script.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0816081.html (351 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The 250,000 Brahui of Afghanistan live in an area known as Registan, or "land of sands." This region lies in southern Afghanistan near the border of Pakistan, where the main group of Brahui live.
		The Brahui have a reputation of being a fierce tribe of strong desert men who submit to no law except the law of retaliation.
		The Brahui are primarily nomadic shepherds, traveling from place to place in search of water and pastures for their flocks.
	www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/p_code2/7.html (820 words)

	BRAHUI - Online Information article about BRAHUI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kalat, the native ruler of Baluchistan, is himself a Brahui, and a lineal descendant of Kumbar, former See also:
		Jats (q.v.) and the Brahuis has been suggested, and it is generally held that the former were of Scythic stock.
		The Mengals, Bizanjos and Zehris, the three largest Brahui tribes, are called Jadgal or Jagdal, i.e.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BOS_BRI/BRAHUI.html (982 words)

	Afghanistan - Brahui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Sunni Brahui is another distinctive group settled in the desert areas of southwestern Afghanistan.
		The basic Brahui physical type is Veddoid of South India, and they speak Brahui which is allied to Dravidian, a major language of South India, with a heavy mixture of Balulchi and Pashto.
		Larger communities of Brahui reside in Pakistan's Baluchistan Province.
	countrystudies.us /afghanistan/49.htm (90 words)

	Charles Masson Brahui Folk Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		he ziarat on the crest of Chehel Tan is one of great veneration among the Brahui tribes, and I may be excused, perhaps, for preserving what they relate as to its history.
		In doing so I need not caution my readers that it is unecessary to yield the same implicit belief to the legend as these rude people do, who indeed never question its truth.
		The Brahuis believe that the forty babes, yet in their infantile state, rove about the mysterious hill.
	www.harappa.com /har/masson330.html (354 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Dravidian
		updated 9-6-2002 Brahui (Dravidian) belongs to the Dravidian family of languages, although it is now separated in location from all the other Dravidian languages by languages belonging to the Indo-Hittite family.
		Brahui is spoken in the Baluchistan province of India, and also in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Iran.
		Brahui has no writing system of its own, but the Nastaliq script of the Arabic alphabet is now used.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/dravidh.htm (1070 words)

	WHAT
		The Brahui language belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is close to Tamil.
		Quite clearly the Brahui’s are the only Dravidian survivors in northern India, after the Aryan invasion.
		Brahui language still survives in small pockets but only just.
	www.indiadefence.com /Baluch.htm (1553 words)

	Sarbaaz.Com (( Where Baloch Click! )) Baloch culture, Brahui, Brahooee, Bravi
		In this migration, which took them as far as the Indus, they encountered other people such as the Brahui (a Dravidian group), Sindi, Lasi, and Gujrati as well as nomad of whom certain groups were probably the ancestors of the Gypsies.
		Brahui is spoken in Qalat areas while Makrani is spoken in Makrani, the coastal region of Balochistan.
		The work consist chiefly of saddles, horse gear, embroidered shoes and sword belts, all of which are made in Muhammadpur in the Nasirabad tehsil and Lahri, further north.
	www.sarbaaz.com /culture.htm (691 words)

	Velars, uvulars, and the North Dravidian hypothesis. Journal of the American Oriental Society, The - Find Articles
		I. 1.1 Brahui is spoken by around two million people in Baluchistan province of Pakistan, adjacent areas of Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Turkmenistan.
		The standard reference is an excellent grammar by Bray (1909) which focuses on the usage of the former Khanate of Kalat, in which Brahui was a traditional house language of the Khan.
		Brahui in Iran and Turkmenistan has only recently had any description;...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go2081/is_200307/ai_n9578250 (171 words)

	Brahui language and culture
		FROM WIKIPEDIA The Brahui language is mainly spoken in Balochistan, Pakistan, although also in Afghanistan and Iran by the Brahui.
		It is debated whether Brahui is a remnant of a formerly more widespread Dravidian language family that was reduced during the Aryan expansion, or if it is a more recent migrant from northern or central India.
		It is also sometimes speculated that Brahui might be a legacy of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
	www.lonweb.org /link-brahui.htm (441 words)

	Britannica Article on Dravidian
		Dravidian languages are spoken in India (mainly in its southern, eastern, and central parts), in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and in diaspora communities in S.E. Asia, Pacific Islands, eastern Africa, and elsewhere.
		Brahui (Brahui), with 750,000 speakers in Pakistan, is isolated from all of the other members of the family.
		Among all of the Dravidian languages, Brahui, in Pakistan, is inevitably the one most influenced by Indo-Aryan and Iranian; in contrast, Toda is probably the one language least influenced by any other idiom.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/sars238/shortencybrit.html (3071 words)

	Lengua Brahui
		El término brahui, brāhuī, designa tanto a un grupo étnico como a una lengua, si bien ambas categorías no son idénticas: muchos brahuis no hablan brahui ni siquiera como segunda lengua, mientras que tribus baluchi la hablan como segunda lengua.
		El brahui pertenece al grupo septentrional de la familia dravídica de lenguas, junto con el malto y el kurux, aunque es tan distinto de estos últimos que podría constituir un grupo aparte.
		Los orígenes del brahui son desconocidos, aunque se habla de una desconexión del trono principal de las lenguas dravídicas hacia 3.000 a.
	www.proel.org /mundo/brahui.htm (622 words)

	Brahui people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over the centuries, due to their location, the Brahui have mixed with Iranian peoples as well as the Sindhis and other groups and physically and culturally more closely resemble their Persian neighbors rather than the Dravidian peoples of India.
		The Bizenjo tribe that inhabit Khuzdar, Nal and regions of Makran, along with the Muhammadsanis, one of the largest Baloch tribes, speak both languages.
		Historically, most Khans of Balochistan were Brahui speakers but their court language was Balochi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brahui_people (698 words)

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