Babai (Pashtun tribe)

The Babai (Pashto: بابئی or باباې) is a Pashtun tribe also known as Babi. Their traditional primary homeland is Quetta, Qalat (located in Southern Afghanistan) and Kandahar. It expands across Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The tribe speaks the most archaic and soft dialect Pashto language, referred to as Kandahari Pashto dialect or the Southern Dialect.[1]

Babai is one of the sons of Ghorghasht & related to Kakar & Ghorghashti Tribes in the hierarchy of Tribal Confederation.

Geographical distribution

Khan of Babai Tribe " Khan Abdul Aziz Khan descendants lives in Quetta, they have a very rich historical background and have a huge amount of land called JO_e_Babai. جوئے باببئ in the central of Quetta.

The Rulers/Nawabs of the Babi dynasty in India, belonged to the Babai tribe including the founder, Sher Khan Babi.

See also

References

  1. ^ "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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