Babai_(Pashtun_tribe)

Babai (Pashtun tribe)

Babai (Pashtun tribe)

Pashtun tribe live in Afghanistan

The Babai (Pashto: بابئی) is a Pashtun tribe also known as Babi. Their traditional primary homeland is in Qalat, Zabul, located in Southern Afghanistan and Kandahar, largely settled in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

The tribe speaks the most archaic and soft dialect Pashto language, referred to as Kandahari Pashto dialect or the Southern Dialect.[1]

Geographical distribution

Khan of Babai Tribe " Khan Abdul Aziz Khan descendants lives in Quetta, they have a very rich historical background and have a huge amount of land called JO_e_Babai. جوئے باببئ in the central of Quetta.[citation needed]

The Rulers/Nawabs of Babi dynasty, India, belong to the Babai tribe.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, Volume 4 Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2015-12-16.



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