Bashkardi people

Yurts in a Bashkardi village, the Persian Gulf, Iran.
A Bashkardi ceramist, in a Bashkardi village, the Persian Gulf, Iran.
Bashkardi village.
Bashkardi yurt.

The Bashkardi (Baškardi) are an Iranian people residing in southeastern Iran. Two groups of dialects making up Bashkardi form a distinct Iranian language of its own (see Bashkardi language). Bashkardi is spoken by around 35,000 people living in villages in the mountainous district of Bashagard and newly established sub-province of Bashagerd (locally Bashkard), Hormozgan province, Iran, in an area bordering on Sistan-o-Baluchestan province to the east and partly extending into Kerman province to the north.

Ethnonym & ethnic connections

Ethnographic material collected from the Hormozgan province has led to the assumption of a possible phonetic relation between the ethnonym Bashkardi with the selfname of the Bashkirs, giving reasons to suggest ancient Iranian stratum in the Bashkir culture.

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The Bashkir scientistSalavat Gallyamov, based on the research of Nikolai Dmitriev, member of USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philology, where he indicates the presence of Iranian phonetics in contemporary Bashkir language, has put forward the hypothesis of Indo-Iranian origin of the Bashkir people.

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Until this discovery, specific linguistic information in favor of the Iranian hypothesis was not existent, and hardly any could have been found.

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Similarly, based on available literature on the ethnogenesis of the Bashkirs, Russian ethnographic literature has discussed three main theories until now: Turkic, Ugric, intermediate.

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According to Bashkir scientist Rashid Shakur, doctor of philological sciences, the ethnonym of one of the Bashkir subtribes "Burzyan" could possibly be rooted in the famous ancient Iranian religious monument "Avesta" in the Ist millennium BC. The migration of the ancestors of the Burzyan tribe from Central Asia (Altai, Irtysh, Yenisei) to the lower Syr Darya and the Aral Sea region toward Iran occurred in the first half of Ist millennium BC. The history of the Burzyan, however, still remain a mystery.

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