Badzhui people explained

Group:Badzhui
Native Name:баджавидж, баджуведж; баджуйцы баджувцы
Langs:Badzhui language (variety of Shughni)
Rels:Predominantly Sunni Islam
Native Name Lang:ber
Related Groups:Other Iranian peoples
Regions:Valleys around Yaghnob, Qul and Varzob Rivers and elsewhere in Tajikistan

The Badzhui (Bajuwi) are a subgroup of the Shughni group of Pamiris, although sometimes considered to be a distinct ethnographic group. They are primarily Sunni Muslim, unlike the Shughni who are Ismaili.[1] The Badzhui are also known under the generic term Pamir people.[2] They live in the Rushon District of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan.

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Notes and References

  1. Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1984), 19.
  2. Olson, James Stuart.An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 273-274.