Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Pashtun
Indigenous Group	Pashtun (Also known as: Pashtoon, Pushtun, Pakhtun, Pakhtoon, Pukhtun, Afghan, Pathan)
Location	Afghanistan, compact areas throughout eastern and southern parts of the country and scattered elsewhere.
Estimated Population	13,043,938 (2005, CIA World Factbook)
Environment	Mountain, Plain and Desert
Lifestyle	Sedentary / Semi-nomadic / Nomadic
Subsistence	Paid Labor / Trade / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Pashto Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern, Southeastern The divisions of Pashto are complicated. The four top-level linguistic varieties are mutually intelligible but there is no agreement as to whether they represent languages or dialects. Here we treat them as dialects. 1) Northern Pashto Alternate names: Mashriqi, Pakhto, Paktu, Pakhtu, Pakhtoo, Pashtu,Pushto, Yusufzai Pashto, Afghan Sub-Dialects: Northwestern, Ghilzai, Durani 2) Central Pashto Alternate names: Mahsudi, Manjaney Sub-Dialects: Waziri, Bannuchi 3) Southern Pashto Alternate names: Magribi, Pashtu, Pushto, Pushtu, Quetta-Kandahar Pashto Sub-Dialects: Kandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Khorasan area Pashto 4) Waneci Alternate names: Wanetsi, Wanechi, Vanechi, Tarino, Chalgari
Website URLs	Pashto, The Pashtun Afghan Net, Pashto Boston University, Article - Images of the Pathan: The Usefulness of Colonial Ethnography Afghanistan Online, Languages in Afghanistan Chai Khaana, Pashtun discussion board Pashtuns of Afghanistan Pushtu Language Language Family Trees: Pashto Additional Offline Sources: "Afghanistan – Ethnische Gruppen." Map. Tübinger Atlas Des Vorderen Orients. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1977. "Vorderer Orient – Sprachen und Dialekte." Map. Tübinger Atlas Des Vorderen Orients. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1977.
NGOs	Afghan Women’s Network Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) Women’s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA) World Pakhtun Foundation (WPF) The UN Refugee Agency Afghanistan Information Management Service