Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Arab (Persian-speaking)
Indigenous Group	Arab (Persian-speaking)
Location	Afghanistan, scattered in all the northern provinces and the western part of Herat province.
Estimated Population	100,000 (Refer Offline Population Source below)
Environment	Plain / Valley
Lifestyle	Nomadic / Semi-nomadic
Subsistence	Animal Husbandry / Agriculture
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Persian Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian Alternate names: Dari These Arabs of Afghanistan have lost their original language and use dialects of 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 Additional Offline Population Source Barfielf, TJ (1981) : The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan. Pastoral Nomadism in Transition. Austin.
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.)