Babai (Pashtun tribe)

The Babai (Pashto: بابئی) is a Pashtun tribe also known as Babi. Their traditional primary homeland is in Qalat, Zabul, located in Southern Afghanistan and Kandahar, largely settled in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

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

Geographical distribution

Khan of Babi tribe also lives in Quetta, and they have huge number of land Area called Jo_e_Babai.

The rulers and nawabs of Junagadh State, India, belong to the Babai tribe.

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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