Badzhui people

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Badzhui
баджавидж, баджуведж; баджуйцы баджувцы
Regions with significant populations
Valleys around Yaghnob, Qul and Varzob Rivers and elsewhere in Tajikistan
Languages
Badzhui language (variety of Shughni)
Secondary: Tajik, Russian
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Iranian peoples

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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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.