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Iran
Index
Scattered throughout central, southern, and eastern Iran are
small groups speaking many different Indo-Iranian languages. In the
southern part of the Central Plateau are such small nomadic and
seminomadic tribes. Other tribes, related to groups in neighboring
Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, are found in Khorasan. Also in
Khorasan are an estimated 25,000 Tajiks, a settled farming people
related to the Tajiks of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
Distinguishable, but comparatively smaller, Indo-Iranian-speaking
minorities are the following tribally organized settled groups: the
Hazareh, Barbai, Teimuri, Jamshidi, and Afghani in Khorasan; the
Qadikolahi and Palavi in Mazandaran; and the Sasani and Agajani in
the Talesh region of Gilan.
Data as of December 1987
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