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A CIA map showing traditional Afghan tribal territories The Bettani speak various Pashto dialects . The Ghilji or (Gharzai) of the central region around Paktika speak Central Pashto , a dialect with unique phonetic features, transitional between the southern and the northern dialects of Pashto. [ 8 ]
The data in the list are also of variable quality and timeliness, as only irregularly updated estimates are available for many countries. Most of the entries in the list come from the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook database or from national statistical offices.
1996 map of the major ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (substantially based on G.P. Murdock, Africa, its peoples and their cultural history, 1959). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows: Afroasiatic
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...
Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan form the world's largest tribal society, comprising over 60 million people and between 350 and 400 tribes and clans. India adopted a republican constitution in 1950, after three years of debate in its Constituent Assembly.
The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people [a] or simply the Chinese, [18] are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the world population.
Members of an uncontacted tribe photographed in 2012 near Feijó in Acre, Brazil. Uncontacted peoples are groups of Indigenous peoples living without sustained contact with neighbouring communities and the world community.
They are a Bantu-speaking [4] ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic group Hutu and the Pygmy group of the Twa). [5] Historically, the Tutsi were pastoralists and filled the ranks of the warriors' caste.