Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Arab (Arabic-speaking)
Indigenous Group	Arab (Arabic-speaking)
Location	Afghanistan, few villages in Jowzjan province (Hassanabad near Shibarghan and Sultan Ariq/Aregh near Aq Chag), Balkh province (Yakhdan near Balkh and Khushalabad near Daulatabad), and Takhar province (south of Talukan).
Estimated Population	4,000 - 5,000 (Refer offline Population Sources below)
Environment	Plain / Valley
Lifestyle	Nomadic / Semi-nomadic
Subsistence	Animal Husbandry / Agriculture
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Arabic Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic Alternate names: Balkh Arabic, Tajiki Arabic The dialects of Arabic still spoken by Arabs of Afghanistan are strongly influenced by Persian. All speakers are bilingual in Persian.
Website URLs	Arabs of Afghanistan Afghanistan Online Peoples of Afghanistan (US State Dept.) Afghanistan country study (US Government) Afghanistan ethnolinguistic map 1 Afghanistan ethnolinguistic map 2 Population Resources: Farhadi, AR (1969) Die Sprachen von Afghanistan. In : Zentralasiatische Studien, 3, 409-416 ; for 4,000 see Kieffer, ChM (1981) L'Arabe et les arabophones de Bactriane (Afghanistan), In : Die Welt des Islam, 20, 3-4, 178-196.
NGOs	No NGOs deal specifically with this ethnic group. For major NGOs operating in Afghanistan see separate entries for major Afghan ethnic groups (Pashtun, Tajik, etc.)