Mengal

Mengal (Brahui: مینگل) is an ethnic Brahui tribe inhabiting Balochistan, Pakistan.[1] It belongs to the Jhalawani branch of the Brahui tribes, and is bilingual in Brahui and Balochi.[2][3]

Origins

According to the official list by Mir Ahmad Yar, the last Khan of Kalat, Mengal was originally one of the Jaṭṭ tribes inhabiting Balochistan.[4] In the Balochi language, plurals of substantives and collective nouns are formed, generally, by adding the suffix "gal" to the noun itself, tribes like Jadgal, Kurdgal are formed in this manner, similarly the term Mengal (Meng-gal,) merely denotes the Meng (Ming, or Men, or Min) name of a tribe and the suffix "gal" means (Speech and group), thus meaning (the group of Mins).[5]

Tribal area

The Mengal tribal area is around 70,000 square miles (180,000 km2), stretching from the Helmand River in the North to Lasbela District in the south, and bordering on the province of Sindh to the east.[6]

Prominent people

References

  1. ^ Table 13 in Elfenbein (1989)
  2. ^ Table 13 in Elfenbein (1989)
  3. ^ Scholz, Fred (2002) [1974]. Nomadism & colonialism : a hundred years of Baluchistan, 1872-1972. Karachi; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-579638-4.
  4. ^ Table 13 in Elfenbein (1989)
  5. ^ Tate, George Passman (1912). Seistan: A Memoir on the History, Topography, Ruins, and People of the Country, in Four Parts. Superintendent government printing. p. 291.
  6. ^ Balochistan Administrative Districts database Planning and Development Department (P&DD) of the Government of Balochistan. Retrieved 25 November 2008
  7. ^ Nothing but provincial autonomy, The DAWN Group of Newspapers, archived from the original on 10 June 2007, retrieved 25 March 2009
  8. ^ Taking on the State: Frontline March 09, 2007, Hindunet, retrieved 25 November 2008
  9. ^ Press briefing by the UN offices for Pakistan and Afghanistan, UN News Center, retrieved 25 March 2009
  10. ^ Senators: Mir Muhammad Naseer Mengal, Pakistan Senate, retrieved 26 March 2009
  11. ^ "Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, Lifestyle".
  12. ^ Sheikh, Irfan (14 October 2010). "Senior Balochistan National Party leader shot dead". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 3 September 2024.

Bibliography

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