The Dehwar are an ethnic group of the
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; , ), also spelled as Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in West and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. This arid region o ...
region of Pakistan and Iran. They have traditionally been settled agriculturalists (in contrast to the nomadic
Baloch). They speak
Dehwari, a variety of
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
close to
Dari
Dari (; endonym: ), Dari Persian (, , or , ), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language;Lazard, G.Darī – The New Persian ...
and
Tajik. They may be descendants of settled local populations predating the Baloch migration. In the
Khanate of Kalat from the 17th century and later, the community was the source of recruits for the state's bureaucracy.
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Iranian ethnic groups
Social groups of Balochistan, Pakistan
Ethnic groups in Iran
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