Indigenous Communities from Afghanistan

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Timuri
Indigenous Group	Timuri (Also known as: Taimuri, Teimuri, Taimouri, Teymur, Aimaq, Aimaq-e-digar)
Location	Afghanistan, northwestern part of Herat province. Small, isolated groups may be found in western Herat, southern Faryab and Farah (Shindand area) provinces. Timuri are an Aimaq ethnic group but not part of the Chahar Aimaq tribal confederation.
Estimated Population	33,000 - 75,000 (Refer Population Sources below)
Environment	Plain / Desert
Lifestyle	Semi-nomadic / Nomadic
Subsistence	Animal Husbandry
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditiona
Language Family	Aimaq (Timuri dialect) Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian Alternate names: Taimuri, Teimuri, Taimouri, Teymuri, Farsi, Parsi, Eastern Persian, Eastern Farsi, Eastern Parsi Timuri speak an eastern Persian dialect known as Timuri. 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	Ethnologue - Aimaq (Taimani dailect) a language of Afghanistan Afghanistan Online Peoples of Afghanistan (US State Dept.) Afghanistan country study (US Government) Afghanistan ethnolinguistic map 1 Afghanistan ethnolinguistic map 2 Population References: 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. 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, etc.)