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	Tajiks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Tajiks (Persian: تاجيك) are one of the principal ethnic groups of Central Asia, and are primarily found in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan, and the Xinjiang province of China.
		Tajiks are the principal ethnic group in most of Tajikistan, as well as in northeastern Afghanistan and the cities of Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Kandahar.
		This group with a population of 41,028 (2000), is located mainly in China's western Xinjiang region with 60% living in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County; some researchers view them as a collection of over a dozen small East Iranian ethnic groups that are related to, but distinct from, the Tajiks of Tajikistan.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tajiki (1569 words)

	Wakhi International Research Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wakhi language belongs to the southern group of the Pamir languages, in the Iranian group of the Indo-European family of languages, where the different Ishkashmi and Wakhi languages are included.
		The Wakhi language, rich in archaisms, differs considerably from the Pamir languages, and generally from the southeastern group of Iranian languages, having certain common characteristics with the Indian languages.
		The climate of Wakhan and adjacent areas of wakhi population are continental: it seldom rains, and snow is swept away by the icy east winds.
	groups.msn.com /WakhiInternationalResearchForum/wakhilanguage.msnw (964 words)

	Afghanistan Country Study
		Groups that live in close proximity often have complex and hostile relations, a situation that is exacerbated by the fact that a multiplicity of ethnic groups may reside in the same region.
		Ethnic groups are perceived to be ranked in terms of status, although members of the groups in question may not always agree with members of other groups about their own status ranking.
		Because both tribe and ethnic group are extensions of family, in order to unite Afghans from divergent groups it might be useful to extend the concept of family as far as it will go in order to include all the citizens in the same group.
	www.gl.iit.edu /govdocs/afghanistan/EthnicityAndTribe.html (4350 words)

	South Asian Media Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, many of the ethnic groups sought a greater share of power than they had before the war, and violence was a common result of the disputes.
		This ethnic group, like most others in the country, is not limited to the borders of Afghanistan but also constitutes a major ethnic group of about 10 million in Pakistan.
		Because ethnic groups in Afghanistan are ranked in terms of their status and all Pashtuns consider themselves the top ranked ethnic group, Pashtun women marry only other Pashtuns.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/afghanistan/ethnology_afghnistan.cfm (3399 words)

	Opinion
		Ethnic groups of Afghanistan do not fit into the model of an organized unified body, which is working for a set political goal or organized as a military entity controlled in a hierarchical way.
		None of the ethnic group is homogenous economically, socially or politically.
		Nuristanis (the name is reflective of a regional group rather than a distinct ethnic group) live in the mountainous region in northeast, which constitutes areas of Kunar and Laghman provinces.
	www.defencejournal.com /2003/mar/ethnic.htm (7161 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Tajiks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mountain Tajiks or Pamiris of the Badakhshan region in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well as the group usually known as "Tajik" in China's western Xinjiang region are actually a collection of over a dozen small Eastern Iranian groups who have merged with the Tajiks.
		Tajiks are the principal ethnic group in most of Tajikistan, as well as in northeastern Afghanistan and the Afghan cities of Kabul, Mazari Sharif, and Herat.
		In Uzbekistan the Tajiks are the largest part of the population of the cities of Bukhara and Samarqand, and are found in large numbers in the Surxondaryo Province in the south and along Uzbekistan's eastern border with Tajikistan.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Tajiks (1848 words)

	Real Afghan Network - Languages of Afghanistan
		There are several other smaller ethnic groups scattered around the country, such as the Nuristanis, who live in the remote mountains northeast of Kabul along the Pakistan border.
		Enclaves of Pashtuns live scattered among other ethnic groups in much of the rest of the country, especially in the northern regions and in the western interior due to the resettlement policies of Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, who ruled Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.
		WAKHI 7,000 in Afghanistan (1979) East of Ishkashim, Pamir Mts., in 64 villages on the left bank of the Panj River in the Wakhan Corridor, as far as Sarhad village (about 73E).
	www.realafghan.com /history/language.htm (2596 words)

	Who were Illyrians
		The principal language of the Italic group is Latin, originally the speech of the city of Rome and the ancestor of the modern Romance languages: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc. The earliest Latin inscriptions apparently date from the 6th century BC, with literature beginning in the 3rd century.
		One group of travel permits for caravans can be dated to the early 7th century, and it appears that other texts date from the same or from neighbouring centuries.
		Dialects of the Shughni group are spoken in the Pamirs.
	www.geocities.com /iliria1 (15583 words)

	Wakhi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Adjective; of or relating to Wakhan, the extreme northeastern region of Afghanistan that borders China, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.
		The Wakhi Language; the language of the majority of the people of Wakhan.
		The Wakhi ethnic group, consisting of speakers of Wakhi.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wakhi (93 words)

	Afghanstation.com - The Centre of Afghan Web
		The largest and traditionally most politically powerful ethnic group, the Pashtun (or Pakhtun in northern Pakhtu dialects), is composed of many units totalling in 1995 an estimated 10.1 million, the most numerous being the Durrani and the Ghilzai.
		Enclaves of Pashtun also live scattered among other ethnic groups throughout the nation, where they have settled at various times since the end of the nineteenth century as shifts in populations, some forced, some voluntary, occurred in response to political expediency and economic opportunities (see Abdur Rahman Khan, 1880-1901, ch.1).
		Aimaq, meaning tribe in Turkish, is not an ethnic domination, but differentiates seminomadic herders and agricultural tribal groups of various ethnic origins, including the Turkic Hazara and Baluch, that were formed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
	www.afghanstation.com /Tribe.htm (2227 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Afghanistan
		Two lineage groups within the Abdali ruled Afghanistan from 1747 until the downfall of the monarchy in the 1970s--the Sadozai of the Popalzai tribe, and the Muhammadzai of the Barakzai tribe.
		Although the groups organizing in the Pakistani city of Peshawar would later, after the Soviet invasion, be described by the western press as "freedom fighters"--as if their goal were to establish a representative democracy in Afghanistan--in reality these groups each had agendas of their own that were often far from democratic.
		The rivalries of these groups brought the plight of the Afghans to the attention of the West, and it was they who received military assistance from the United States and a number of other nations.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/afghanistan/afghanistan.html (21323 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These major ethnic groups are further broken down into several smaller ethnic groups: Pakistan's census and rough estimates vary, but the consensus is that the Punjabis are by far the largest group, and that Pukhtuns (also known as Pashtuns) and Sindhis are the next two largest groups
		The remaining groups that comprise large percentages include the Muhajirs at 7.57% and the Balochis at 3.57%.
		The other main ethnic groups include the Brahui, Kashmiri, Hindko Pukhtuns, and the various peoples of the Northern Areas, who all together total roughly 4.66% of the total population.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Demographics_of_Pakistan (2605 words)

	The Tajikistan Update - Cultural, Language, & Ethnicity
		During the Soviet period Russian was the lingua franca amongst the various ethnic groups in Tajikistan and Central Asia.
		While many of the ethnic Russians have fled Tajikistan during the last decade the Russian language is still spoken by much of the native population.
		Besides the Muslims there are a number of other religious groups in Tajikistan including Christians, most of whom are members of the Orthodox Church and come from the European and Korean population, as well as a small number of Jews living in Tajikistan.
	www.angelfire.com /sd/tajikistanupdate/culture.html (1885 words)

	Dissertation Abstract, The Discursive Construction of Reality in the Wakhi Community of Northern Pakistan
		Wakhi discourse is presented through original translations from transcriptions of recordings made during field research in the Shimshal, Avgarch, and Chapursan Wakhi communities in the Gojal area of northern Pakistan from 1995 to 1997.
		These communities speak Wakhi, a language with no written tradition that is one of the Pamir languages and part of the modern East Iranian group of the Iranian language family.
		The dissertation contributes to the understanding of Wakhi phonology and of the effects of the introduction of transcription literacy on oral expression.
	www.mockandoneil.com /dissabs.htm (316 words)

	Ethnologue: China
		An official ethnic community in Viet Nam, although the variety spoken there may be a separate language.
		Ethnic groups: Hua Lan, Hua, Hung, Cao Long, Coc, Khoc, Quan Coc, Quan Trang, Son Trang, Sung, Tien (Tiao Tchaine), Yaya.
		The ethnic group is in Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Chin.html (11262 words)

	Dards, Dardistan, and Dardic: an Ethnographic, Geographic, and Linguistic Conundrum
		Whether they were one distinct ethnic group, or whether the term broadly signified the unruly wine drinkers living in the mountains cannot be determined.
		Morgenstierne doubted the coherence of Dardic as a linguistic group, remarking that "there is not a single common feature distinguishing Dardic, as a whole, from the rest of the IA languages" (Morgenstierne 1961/1983:139).
		Wakhi is a Pamiri Iranian language spoken in the upper Hunza Valley and the upper Ishkoman and Yarkhun valleys, adjacent to Afghanistan's Wakhan, from where the Wakhi people migrated.
	www.mockandoneil.com /dard.htm (3638 words)

	INTRODUCTION Afghanistan Intelligence Agencies
		As the civil war continued, ethnic divisions prevailed, within both the army and groups of the mujahedin, between the majority Pashtuns and minority ethnic groups such as the Uzbeks and the Tajiks.
		With the demise of their common enemy, the militias' ethnic, clan, religious, and personality differences surfaced, and the civil war continued.
		The Hezb-i-Wahdat faction led by Usted Karim Khalili, composed of the Shi'a Hazara ethnic minority, controlled Bamiyan and parts of eight surrounding provinces in the mountainous center of the country, which is known as the Hazarajat.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/afghan/intro.htm (2439 words)

	Tajik Information Center - tajik embassy in moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historically, tajik music it was considered the local dialect of Persian spoken by the Tajik ethnic group in Central Asia; when the Soviet Union imposed the use of the Latin script in 1928, and later the Cyrillic script, it came to be considered a separate language in Tajikistan, partly tajik morey for political reasons.
		There have been claims that the speakers of the language have been oppressed by the Uzbekistan's government, and were forced tajik to speak in Uzbek in public, or otherwise would be fined.
		In western Pakistan there is anywhere between 500,000 to over 1 million ethnic Tajiks, most of whom are Afghan refugees in tajik embassy in moscow the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_T_-_Z/Tajik.html (416 words)

	UNHCR - Update to UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Afghanistan
		The Taliban (“the Seekers”) Movement was formed in 1994 by a group of graduates of Pakistani Islamic colleges (madrassas) on the border with Afghanistan, run by the fundamentalist Jamiat-e-Ulema.
		It is not possible to give an exhaustive account of the groups that risk persecution, precisely because alliances and conflicts are changing and seem to arise across ethnic, political, social and clan barriers and are not perceived to follow any regular and predictable pattern (Thomsen, T., and Winding, S., 9 November 1993, 7).
		Rubin has observed that despite the ethnic tone of the war, in which each major military force is drawn predominantly or exclusively from one ethnic group, there have been few if any cases of forced displacement on ethnic grounds in Afghanistan (February 1996, 3).
	www.unhcr.org /publ/RSDCOI/3ae6a6408.html (12486 words)

	Pakistan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In addition, small groups of non-Indo-European languages are also spoken including Brahui which is a Dravidian language and Burushaski which is a language isolate.
		The Numerous other ethnic groups are mainly found in the northern parts of the country such as Turwalis, Kafiristanis, Hindko, Brahui, Kashmiris, Khowar, Shina and so forth.
		There are differences in culture among the different ethnic groups in matters such as dress, food, and religion, especially where pre-Islamic customs differ from Islamic practices.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/a/k/Pakistan.html (6167 words)

	Iranica.com - HINDU KUSH
		Small groups of Kafirs who in 1896 fled into neighboring British India still live, together with Kalash, in a few valleys of lower Chitral close to the Afghan border.
		Several other groups are present in addition to these three most important peoples: on the west and northwest rim of the mountains there are Persian-speaking, mostly Shi¿ite Haza@ras and Sunni Turks, closely related to the Uzbeks of the foreland; the former have also settled in a few mountain valleys (Panjæe@r, K¨o@st-o-Fereng, Andara@b).
		The simple construction of their farms and the insignificance of fruit cultivation show that these groups moved here in more recent times, before which they pursued a nomadic way of life.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v12f3/v12f3031.html (2812 words)

	iranian_people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Iranian peoples are a collection of ethnic groups defined by their usage of Iranian languages and discernable descent from ancient Iranian peoples.
		The series of ethnic groups which comprise the Iranian peoples are traced to a branch of the ancient Indo-European Aryans known as the Iranians or Proto-Iranians.
		Saladin, a noted adversary of the Crusaders, was an ethnic Kurd, while various empires centered in Iran (including the Safavids) re-established a modern dialect of Persian as the official language spoken throughout much of what is today Iran and adjacent parts of Central Asia.
	www.greatbigjackpot.com /wiki/?title=Iranian_people (4290 words)

	Wakhi People(Who they are)??Some Info. - GupShup Forums
		In Afghanistan, compared to the Tadzhik Wakhs, the extinction of the Wakhi language is a slower process, as there is no compulsory education and literacy is still not widespread.
		The people living here are Wakhis, an ethic group staying in the mountainous areas of the Karakoram and the Pamirs in the boarder land of Pakistan, China and Afghanistan.
		Mock is a leading scholar of the Wakhi culture of northern Pakistan.
	www.paklinks.com /gs/showthread.php?t=179623 (1775 words)

	tajiks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While the average Tajik has dark hair and eyes with medium to fair skin, light hair and eyes are not uncommon, particularly in mountainous regions such as Badakhshan.
		Tajikistan in particular has been a focal point for this movement, and the government there has made a conscious effort to revive the legacy of the Samanid empire, the first Tajik-dominated state in the region after the Arab conquest.
		Persian peopleIranian peoplesEthnic groups in AfghanistanEthnic groups in TajikistanEthnic groups in UzbekistanEthnic groups in PakistanEthnic groups in AsiaPersian communities outside of Iran
	www.greatbigjackpot.com /wiki/?title=Tajiks (1615 words)

	Ethnologue: Tajikistan
		These may be members of the ethnic group, not speakers.
		Few members of the ethnic group now speak Arabic.
		Subgroup names are similar to those of the Changgars of Lahore, and to names used for groups mistakenly called 'Gypsies'.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Taji.html (609 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:wbl
		Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Pakistan > Wakhi
		Ethnic population: 18,000 in Afghanistan (1990 A. Kibrik).
		This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=wbl (244 words)

	Mera Pakistan
		The upper house is called the Senate, which has 100 seats equally distributed among the four provinces of Pakistan, with reserved seats for women and religious minorities, who may also contest the general seats.
		The lower house is called the National Assembly of Pakistan and has 342 seats including reserved seats for religious and ethnic minorities and women.
		There are regional differences in culture among the different ethnic groups in matters such as dress, food.
	www.waheedbhai.com /ajnabi/pakistan (6722 words)

	Afghanistan - Ethnic Groups
		In 1996, approximately 40 percent of Afghans were Pashtun, 11.4 of whom are of the Durrani tribal group and 13.8 percent of the Ghilzai group.
		Tajiks make up the second largest ethnic group with 25.3 percent of the population, followed by Hazaras, 18 percent; Uzbeks, 6.3 percent; Turkmen, 2.5 percent; Qizilbash, 1.0; 6.9 percent other.
		The usual caveat regarding statistics is particularly appropriate here.
	countrystudies.us /afghanistan/38.htm (716 words)

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