Baluch
The Baluch are a people who are native to Afghanistan , Iran and Pakistan . The Baloch language is one of the Iranian languages .
distribution
The majority of the total of around 5.6 million Baluchis live in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, with the exception of the seven northernmost districts, around one million in eastern Iran and around 100,000 in the southern and western outskirts of Afghanistan. There are also Baluchi settlement islands in southern Turkmenistan (Marv region) as well as in Oman and the emirate of Dubai .
Culture
The Baluch speak Baluch and profess almost exclusively Sunni Islam of the Hanafi direction , in addition to which local religious traditions have been preserved. The traditional music is mainly cultivated by professional traveling musicians who accompany their songs melodically on the saroz string lute and rhythmically on the plucked long-necked damburag lute . Entertainment songs ( sawt ), which are sung at weddings and other family celebrations, have an important part in the musical culture . Solo improvisations on the saroz are called baggay .
literature
- Joseph Ivory: Baluchistan iii. Baluchi Language and Literature and Baluchistan iiia. Balochi poetry . In: Encyclopaedia Iranica , Volume 3, Fasc. 6, pp. 633-647. As of July 28, 2008.
- Petr Kokaisl, Pavla Kokaislová: The Ethnic Identity of Turkmenistan's Baloch. In: Asian Ethnology , Volume 78, No. 1, 2019, pp. 181-196.
- Brian Spooner: Baluchistan i. Geography, History and Ethnography and Baluchistan i. Geography, History and Ethnography (cont.) . In: Encyclopaedia Iranica , Volume 3, Fasc. 6, pp. 598-632. Status: July 15, 2010.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See MT Massoudieh: Baluchistan iv. Music of Baluchistan . In: Encyclopædia Iranica