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Brahui

The Sunni Brahui is another distinctive group settled in the desert areas of southwestern Afghanistan. They numbered about 200,000 in 1970 according to an estimate by Louis Dupree; estimates in the 1990s run lower. 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. Brahui mostly work as tenant farmers or hired herders for Baluch or Pushtun khans. Larger communities of Brahui reside in Pakistan's Baluchistan Province.

 
You can read more regarding this subject on the following websites:

Brahui people - Wikipedia
Brahui language - Wikipedia
Brahui in Afghanistan | Joshua Project
The Brahui of Afghanistan - PrayWay
Brahui in Turkmenistan | Joshua Project


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