Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Maliki
Indigenous Group	Maliki (Also known as: Aimaq, Aimaq-e-digar)
Location	Afghanistan, northwestern and northern part of Heart province. Maliki are an Aimaq ethnic group but not part of the Chahar Aimaq tribal confederation.
Estimated Population	12,000 (1970s, see offline sources listed below)
Environment	Plain / Desert / Mountain
Lifestyle	Semi-nomadic / Nomadic
Subsistence	Animal Husbandry
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Aimaq (Maliki dialect) Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian Alternate names: Maliki, Farsi, Parsi, Eastern Persian, Eastern Farsi, Eastern Parsi Maliki speak an eastern Persian dialect known as Maliki. 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) Afghanistan ethnolinguistic map Ethnologue - Aimaq (Maliki dialect) a language of Afghanistan Additional Offline Sources 1. Janata, A. Rezension zu D. Frohlich : Nationalismus und Nationalstaat in Entwicklungslandern. Afghanische Studien, 3, 1970. In : Archiv fur Volkerkunde, 27 : 192-194, 1973. 2. Weekes, RV (ed.) Muslim peoples - A world ethnographic survey. London, 1978.
NGOs	No NGO appears to work specifically with this ethnic group. For a list of NGOs working in Afghanistan please see entries on one of the major ethnic groups in the country (Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara).