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Vinony's link graph records 353 inbound references to Aimaq people, and connects out to Mongols, Kyrgyz people and Sunni Islam.
It is catalogued under topics including Afghan nomads, Aymaq and Ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
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- ethnic group
- Population
- 1620000
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Aimaqs
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Encyclopedic overview
The Aimaq (Dari: ایماق, romanized: Aimāq), also known as the Chahar Aimaq, are a collection of Sunni and mostly Persian-speaking nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. They live mainly in the central and western highlands of Afghanistan, especially in Ghor and Badghis. Aimaqs were originally known as chahar ("four") Aymaqs: Jamshidi, Aimaq Hazara, Firozkohi, and Taymani. The Timuri, which is a separate tribe but is sometimes included among Aimaqs, which is known as Aimaq-e dīgar ("Other Aimaq").
The Aimaq speak several subdialects of the Aimaq dialect of the Persian language, but some southern groups of Taymani, Firozkohi, and northeastern Timuri Aimaqs have adopted the Pashto language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aimaq people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.