Badzhui people

The Badzhui (Bajuwi) are a subgroup of the Shughni group of Pamiris, although sometimes considered to be a distinct ethnographic group. They are primarily Sunni Muslim, unlike the Shughni who are Ismaili.Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1984), 19. The Badzhui are also known under the generic term Pamir people.Olson, James Stuart.An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 273-274. They live in the Rushon District of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan.

See also Pamiri people Pamir languages

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