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Key facts
- Pakistan
- 2,778,670 ( 2023 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Dravidian people
- Native language
- Brahui
- Religion
- Islam
- Location
- Balochistan
- Image
- Baluchistan01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Brahui
- topic's main category
- Category:Brahui tribe
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Encyclopedic overview
The Brahvis, also spelled Brahuis, are a tribal group principally found in the central regions of Balochistan province of Pakistan, and to a smaller extent in Afghanistan and Iran. They are mainly pastoralists and speak Brahvi, a northern Dravidian language.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brahui people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.