Central Asian Gypsies are a conditional term for the undifferentiated designation of the Luli ethnic groups living mainly in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan ( jugi , mughat, gidaygar, garibsho, gurvat), parya (changar, hindustani), kavol (shekh-momadi), chononi and sogutarosh .
| Central Asian Gypsies | |
|---|---|
| Abundance and area | |
| Total: approximately 10,000 [1] | |
 Uzbekistan : more than 5,000 [1]  Tajikistan : about 4,000 [1] | |
| Tongue | Tajik with a mixture of words taken from various Gypsy families, also Tajik and Uzbek proper |
| Religion | mostly Sunnih of the Hanafi direction |
| Enters into | gypsies |
| Related peoples | houses , European Roma , Ashkali , |
At present, N.V. Bessonov and S.M. Gabbasov are studying the Central Asian Gypsies.
In 2016, the first generalized book about Roma in Central Asia and Transcaucasia under the authorship of Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov was published (see References).
Content
Traditional Clothing
Traditional men's and women's clothing was almost indistinguishable from Tajik and Uzbek, but it was brighter, besides, Central Asian gypsy women never wore a burqa, and Karshi and Shakhrisybza gypsy women also wore turbans “Durra” [2] . The custom of tattoos (three dots on the forehead, hand, and sometimes cheeks) was widespread among the Shakhrisbsky, Karshi and Gissar Gypsies [3] .
Kinship with Gypsies and with each other
These ethnic groups began to be called the Russians by the Gypsies , since until the XIX - middle. XX centuries. they all led a nomadic or semi-nomadic way of life. Representatives of these groups partly perceived this name, but the Gypsies proper ( Roma , Sigon-and Urus) “Central Asian Roma” do not consider themselves a kindred people, do not understand their language, do not marry them. Gypsies also do not consider "Central Asian Gypsies" for their own.
Actually, the “Central Asian Gypsies” themselves are also not a single ethnos. Mugats (Jughi) and Sogutaros have long lived in Central Asia and consider it their homeland. If their ancestors came here from India , Jugha has not survived even legends about it. The national identity of the jugi is multilevel - some of them consider themselves not only jugi, but also Tajiks or Uzbeks . Chistoni, kavol and pariyah believe that they came from Afghanistan and call themselves Afghans or Hindus (pariah). They speak Persian-Tajik dialects . Parya also retain their own Indo-Aryan language . Jughi, sogutarosh, kavol and chisteoni use secret languages ( argo ), which are spoken in the presence of aliens. Argo jugi and sogutarosh basically the same. Argo chistoni and kavol differ greatly both from each other and from the argo jugi.
Representatives of different groups of "Central Asian Gypsies" tend to adhere to narrow specializations (jugi - music , singing, begging, fortune telling, jewelery, sogutarosh - woodworking, cleanliness - theft; parya - trade in hay , hiring for seasonal agricultural work; kavol - small trade ) and remind this, as well as the traditions that limit communication (and marriage) outside the group, the so-called "Muslim castes" of Pakistan and India .
See also
- Mazang
- House
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan. - Tashkent: “IOOFS - Uzbekistan”, 2002. - p. 242–247. - 452 s. - ISBN 5-862800-10-7 .
- ↑ http://static.iea.ras.ru/books/Butovskaya_bredushie_sredi_nas.pdf C. 151
- ↑ http://static.iea.ras.ru/books/Butovskaya_bredushie_sredi_nas.pdf P. 151
Literature
- Oransky I.M. The Tajik-speaking ethnographic groups of the Gissar Valley (Central Asia). Ethnolinguistic research. M .: "Science", the Main edition of Oriental literature, 1983, UDC 902.7 ("-9.155.0)
- Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2016. Gypsies of Central Asia and Caucasus . London: Palgrave Macmillan.