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]

  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.