Afghanistan
- Continent
- Asia
- Population
- 15,592,000 (1989 WA), including an estimated 2,500,000
nomads
- Remarks
- Republic of Afghanistan. De Afghanistan Jamhuriat. Literacy
rate 12% (1987 WA). Information mainly from Farhadi 1967, Sebeok 1969,
Voegelin and Voegelin 1977. Data accuracy estimate: C
- Blind population
- 200,000 (1982 WCE)
- Blind percentage
- 2 (1978 estimate)
- Blindness causes
- Trachoma, cataract, glaucoma, trauma, xerophthalmia
- Religion
- Sunni Muslim 74%, Shi'a Muslim 25%, Hindu 1%
- Languages
- AIQ AIMAQ
- 800,000 (1980 Dupree), including 1,000 Jamshidi (1978
MARC)
- ABH ARABIC, CENTRAL ASIAN COLLOQUIAL
- 5,000 in Afghanistan (1967 Farhadi); 2,729 in Uzbekistan;
7,730 total
- ASK ASHKUN
- 7,000
- AZB AZERBAIJANI, SOUTH
- 5,000 members of the ethnic group (Afshari dialect) but
far fewer speak it; 13,865,000 total or more
- BGN BALUCHI, WESTERN
- 200,000 in Afghanistan (1979 estimate); 451,000 in Iran;
720,000 in Pakistan (1981); 18,633 in Turkmenistan; 1,390,000 total
- BRH BRAHUI
- 200,000 in Afghanistan (1980 Dupree); 10,000 in Iran
(1983); 1,500,000 in Pakistan (1981); 1,710,000 total
- DRW DARWAZI
- 10,000 (1983)
- RMT DOMARI
- 500,000 total (1980 Kenrick)
- PRS FARSI, EASTERN
- 5,600,000, 25% of population (1992); more than 1,000,000
in Pakistan; 7,000,000 total
- GWT GAWAR-BATI
- 8,000 in Afghanistan; 1,500 in Pakistan plus refugees
(1992); 9,500 to 10,000 total
- NLI GRANGALI
- GJU GUJARI
- 700,000 total or more; 355,109 in India (1971 census);
300,000 or more in Pakistan (1992)
- HAZ HAZARAGI
- 1,403,000 in Afghanistan (1989), 9% of the population
(1989); 17,000 to 70,000 in Pakistan (1987); 1,420,000 total or more. Some
estimates go as high as 6,000,000
- JAT JAKATI
- 1,000 in Afghanistan; 154,660 in Moldova (1979); 156,000
total
- QMV KAMVIRI
- 4,000 in Afghanistan (1973 R. Strand); 1,500 to 2,000
plus refugees in Pakistan (1992); 6,000 total
- KAC KARAKALPAK
- 2,000 in Afghanistan; 293,000 in Uzbekistan (1979); 295,000
total
- BSH KATI
- (5,000 in Pakistan plus refugees; 1992)
- KAZ KAZAKH
- 2,000 in Afghanistan; 6,556,000 in Kazakhstan (1979);
1,111,718 in China (1990 census); 100,000 in Mongolia (1991); 3,000 in
Iran (1982); 600 or more in Turkey (1982); 8,000,000 total or more
- KDO KIRGHIZ
- 500 in Afghanistan (445 in the Great Pamir, plus a few
in Badakhshan); 1,906,000 in Kyrghyzstan; 141,200 in China (1990 census);
1,137 in Turkey; 2,049,200 total
- MLD MALAKHEL
- 2,000 (1983)
- MLG MOGHOLI
- 200 or fewer speakers, apparently only elderly, out of
an ethnic group of a few thousand
- MNJ MUNJI
- 2,000 to 2,500 (1968 A.L. Grjunberg)
- ORU ORMURI
- 50 speakers out of 2,000 to 5,000 ethnic group members
in Afghanistan; 3,000 in Pakistan (1980); 3,050 total
- PHV PAHLAVANI
- PRC PARACHI
- 500 to 600 speakers out of 5,000 to 6,000 members of
the ethnic group
- PAQ PARYA
- 1,000 total or more
- AEE PASHAYI, NORTHEAST
- GLH PASHAYI, NORTHWEST
- DRA PASHAYI, SOUTHEAST
- PSH PASHAYI, SOUTHWEST
- 108,000 or .6% of the population (1982), including all
Pashayi languages or dialects
- PBT PASHTO, WESTERN
- 8,000,000 in Afghanistan (1989), 50% of the population
(1989 WA); 4,000 in Tajikistan; 50,000 in Iran; thousands in United Arab
Emirates; 8,054,000 total
- PRN PRASUNI
- 2,000
- SGL SANGLECHI-ISHKASHIMI
- 2,000 in Afghanistan; 500 in Tajikistan; 2,500 total
- SDG SAVI
- 3,000 (1983) or several thousand (1992)
- SGH SHUGHNI
- 3,000 in Afghanistan; 35,000 to 40,000 in Tajikistan;
38,000 to 43,000 total
- SMS SHUMASHTI
- SND SINDHI
- 17,000,000 total (1991 WA); 12,500,000 in Pakistan (1986
MARC); 1,600,000 in India (1986 MARC)
- TNF TANGSHEWI
- TTR TATAR
- 350 in Afghanistan; 7,000,000 total (1991 WA)
- TRA TIRAHI
- A few elderly speakers. There may be 5,000 members of
the ethnic group total
- TRM TREGAMI
- TCK TURKMEN
- 380,000 in Afghanistan (1983 estimate); 2,028,000 in
Turkmenistan (1979); 721,600 in Iran (1986); 925 in Turkey (1982); several
thousand refugees in Pakistan; 3,131,000 total
- URD URDU
- 41,260,000 total or more
- UIG UYGHUR
- 3,000 in Afghanistan; 7,214,431 in China (1990 census);
245,000 in Kazakhstan; 1,000 in Mongolia; 500 or more in Turkey; a few
hundred families of traders in Pakistan; 7,464,000 total or more
- UZS UZBEK, SOUTHERN
- 1,403,000, or 9% of population in Afghanistan (1990 WA);
1,981 in Turkey (1982); 1,405,000 total or more
- WBK WAIGALI
- 8,000 to 10,000 (1974 Jones)
- WBL WAKHI
- 7,000 in Afghanistan (1979 estimate); 9,100 in Pakistan
(1992) plus refugees; 6,000 to 7,000 in Tajikistan; 6,000 in China; 28,000
total
- WRD WARDUJI
- WSV WOTAPURI-KATARQALAI
