Taymani

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The Taymani (Dari: تایمنی) are an Aimaq people in Ghor Province in central Afghanistan. They speak the Aimaq dialect of Persian, but some southern groups of Taymanis speak the Pashto language and feel an affinity with the Pashtuns,[1] although their Pashtun neighbors identify them as Aimaq.[2]

References

  1. ^ Vogelsang, Willem (2002). The Afghans. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 18. ISBN 0-631-19841-5. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  2. ^ William Maley. Fundamentalism reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1998. ISBN 1-85065-360-7, ISBN 978-1-85065-360-8