Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Jamshidi
Indigenous Group	Jamshidi (Also known as: Gamshidi, Jamshedi, Djamchidi, Yemchidi, Dzhemshid, Aimak, Aimagh, Chahar Aimaq, Char Aimaq).
Location	Afghanistan, western part of Badghis province. Small, isolated groups may be found in Herat province, northwest Badghis and southern Faryab provinces. Jamshidi are an ethnic group of the Chahar Aimaq tribal confederation.
Estimated Population	34,000 (Janata, 1973) - 85,000 (Klimburg, 1966)
Environment	Plain / Desert
Lifestyle	Semi-nomadic / Nomadic / Sedentary
Subsistence	Animal Husbandry
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Aimaq (Jamshidi dialect) Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian Alternate names: Aimaq, Gamshidi, Jamshedi, Djamchidi, Yemchidi, Dzhemshidi, Chahar Aimaq, Char Aimaq, Farsi, Parsi, Eastern Persian, Eastern Farsi, Eastern Parsi Jamshidi speak an eastern Persian dialect known as Jamshidi. 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 (Jamshidi dailect) a language of Afghanistan Afghanistan ethnolinguistic maps Additional Offline Sources: 1. Klimburg, M. Afghanistan. Das Land im historischen Spannungsfeld Mittelasiens. Vienna, 1966. 2. Janata, A. Rezension zu D. Frohlich : Nationalismus und Nationalstaat in Entwicklungslandern. Afghanische Studien, 3, 1970. In : Archiv fur Volkerkunde, 27 : 192-194, 1973. 3. Snoy, P. Die ethnischen Gruppen. In : W. Kraus (ed.), Afghanistan. Tubingen, 1972. 4. Grassmuck, GL and Adamec, LW (eds.) Afghanistan: Some New Approaches. Ann Arbor, 1969. 5. Weekes, RV (ed.) Muslim peoples - A world ethnographic survey. London, 1978.
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).