Babai (Pashtun tribe)
The Babai (Pashto: بابئی) is a Pashtun tribe formerly known as (Babi بابی).
Their traditional primary homeland is in (Qalat, Zabul زابل قلات) located in Southern Afghanistan and (Kandahar کندھار).
Babai is subtribe of Ghilji (Pashto: غلجئ) Hotak (Pashto: هوتک) clan of Pashtun people.
Babai tribe 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]
The Rulers and Nawabs of Junagadh State, (Gujrat) India also belong to the Babai tribe.
Notables
- Nawab Muhammad Dilawar Khalji Babi, 14th Governor of Sindh, Pakistan and Nawab of Junagadh State
- Malik Abdul Aziz Khan Babi, Khan of Babi Tribe & possessor of Mahal (Jo-e-Babi جوئے بابی) Quetta, Balochistan.
- Parveen Babi, Indian actress
References
- "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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