Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Firuzkuhi
Indigenous Group	Firuzkuhi (Also known as: Firuzkohi, Firozkohi, Firozkuhi, Chahar Aimaq, Char Aimaq, Four Aimaq).
Location	Afghanistan, eastern part of Badghis and northern part of Ghowr provinces. Firuzkuhi are an ethnic group of the Chahar Aimaq tribal confederation.
Estimated Population	95,000 (Klimburg, 1966) – 110,000 (Snoy, 1972)
Environment	Plain / Mountain
Lifestyle	Semi-nomadic / Nomadic
Subsistence	Animal Husbandry
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Aimaq (Firuzkuhi dialect) Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian Alternate names: Aimaq, Chahar Aimaq, Char Aimaq, Farsi, Parsi, Eastern Persian, Eastern Farsi, Eastern Parsi Firuzkuhi speak an eastern Persian dialect known as Firuzkuhi. This dialect is sometimes classified together with related dialects as Aimaq language (which, in turn, is sometimes considered a dialect of Farsi/Dari).
Website URLs	Afghanistan Online Afgha.com (an expatriate site) Peoples of Afghanistan (US State Dept.) Afghanistan country study (US Government) Ethnologue: Aimaq (Firuzkuhi dialect) a language of Afghanistan Afghanistan ethnolinguistic maps Additional Offline Sources: Klimburg, M. Afghanistan. Das Land im historischen Spannungsfeld Mittelasiens. Vienna, 1966. Janata, A. Rezension zu D. Frohlich: Nationalismus und Nationalstaat in Entwicklungslandern. Afghanische Studien, 3, 1970. In: Archiv fur Volkerkunde, 27 : 192-194, 1973. Snoy, P. Die ethnischen Gruppen. In : W. Kraus (ed.), Afghanistan. Tubingen, 1972.
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, Uzbek and Hazara).