Ormur
The Ormur (Pashto: اورمړ), also known as Burki or Baraki (Pashto: برکي), are an Eastern Iranic people mainly living in Baraki Barak in the Logar Province of Afghanistan, and in Kaniguram in the South Waziristan District[1] and Peshawar (Ormur, Peshawar)[2] in Pakistan. Today they generally identify as Pashtuns.[3][4]
Language
Ormuri is the first language of the Ormurs living in Kaniguram and its vicinity in South Waziristan, and in Baraki Barak.[2][5] Today, the population is bilingual in the local Pashto dialect of Waziristani.
Notable people
 |
References
- ↑ "Isolate language from the mountains of Waziristan faces extinction". 25 March 2014.
- 1 2 Charles Kieffer, ORMURI, Encyclopædia Iranica
- ↑ Khattak, Sohail (6 December 2011). "Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy". The Express Tribune.
Rozi Khan Burki is one of the few people who have carried out detailed research on the language. In his book written purely in Ormuri, he claims that the similarities between Pashtun and Ormuri people persist because Ormur was the grandson of Qasi Abdur Rasheed – the forefather of all Pashtun tribes. "They are originally Pashtuns who migrated in 1025 to Kaniguram from Logar, Afghanistan. Their language was initially known as 'Burgista' but now it has become Ormuri," he said.
- ↑ Yousafzai, Arshad (1 July 2018). "Bringing Ormuri back from the dead". The News International.
The area belongs to the Burki tribe of Pashtuns but their mother tongue is not Pashto -- they speak Ormuri (...) "Burki is purely a Pashtun tribe. We are Pashtuns. No one has the right to question our identity," stated the language preservationist, adding, that it is not essential for all Pashtun tribes to speak only Pashto.
- ↑ Burki, Rozi (12 July 2001). "Dying Languages; Special Focus on Ormuri".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
Further reading
- Khan, Imran (2011). Pakistan: A Personal History. Bantam ress. ISBN 978-0-593-06774-1.
- Turmoil on the Roof of the World, in Central Asia and the Caucuses in World Affairs, Hastings, 1993, pp. 1–5
- Notes on the Ormur People, in St Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. IV, St Petersburg, 1993, pp. 230–238
