The Ormur (Pashto: اورمړ), also called Burki or Baraki (Pashto: برکي), are an Eastern Iranic people and Pashtun tribe[1][2] mainly living in Baraki Barak, in the Logar province of Afghanistan and in Kaniguram, in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan.[3]
- ^ Khattak, Sohail (6 December 2011). "Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy". The Express Tribune.
Rozi Khan Burki is one of the few people who have carried out detailed research on the language. In his book written purely in Ormuri, he claims that the similarities between Pashtun and Ormuri people persist because Ormur was the grandson of Qasi Abdur Rasheed – the forefather of all Pashtun tribes. "They are originally Pashtuns who migrated in 1025 to Kaniguram from Logar, Afghanistan. Their language was initially known as 'Burgista' but now it has become Ormuri," he said.
- ^ Yousafzai, Arshad (1 July 2018). "Bringing Ormuri back from the dead". The News International.
The area belongs to the Burki tribe of Pashtuns but their mother tongue is not Pashto -- they speak Ormuri (...) "Burki is purely a Pashtun tribe. We are Pashtuns. No one has the right to question our identity," stated the language preservationist, adding, that it is not essential for all Pashtun tribes to speak only Pashto.
- ^ "Isolate language from the mountains of Waziristan faces extinction". 25 March 2014.