The Kurds and The Baloch have always been referred by the ancient chroniclers with Koch who appear to be the original inhabitants of Balochistan before the Baloch arrival and also with Kurds. Many ethnologists believe that the Kurds belong to the Median branch of Aryan tribes who were mixed up with many people of indigenous origin and later invaders including Semites, Armenians and Turkomans. The Kurds have been living in Kurdish region and Zagros area since the Semitic conquest of Assyria. They are said to have posed a permanent nuisance for the weak rulers of Assyria by organizing raids on Tigris mainland. In a Sumerian inscription dated 2000 B.C. a country known as Kardala is mentioned; and afterwards the Assyrian King, Tiglath Pileser, (circa 745-724 B.C.) appears to have fought a tribe referred as Kur-ti-e. Xenophon (circa 434-355 B.C.) also speaks of Kardukai, a mountain-folk who harassed his march towards the sea. Some archaeological evidences tend to show a Kurdish kingdom which flourished in the second millennium B.C. on the borders of the Semitic empire in Babylonia. In a later period, the Kurds cavalry served as the vanguard of Cyrus army in capturing Babylonia in 539 B.C. The Kurds are from the same origin as that of Baloch. The period of their migration from the Caspian region may be a few centuries earlier than the Baloch who followed at a later period; but instead of going to their people in Zagros mountainous region, outskirts of Mesopotamia, they headed towards east. Linguistically and culturally they must have been from the same stock. [ Janmahmad; The Baloch Cultural Heritage, 1982,] References Note: population statistics for Baloch (including those without a notation) in foreign countries were derived from various census counts, the UN, the CIA World Factbook and Ethnologue. Eastern Baloch, Ethnologue (retrieved 7 July 1998) Population by Mother Tongue, Population Census Organization, Government of Pakistan (retrieved 7 June 2006) Census of Afghans in Pakistan, UNHCR Statistical Summary Report (retrieved 10 October 2006) Languages of Iran, Ethnologue (retrieved 7 June 2006) Western Baloch, Ethnologue (retrieved 7 June 2006) Western Baloch in Turkmenistan, Ethnologue(retrieved 7 June 2006) People in Kuwait, Ethnologue (retrieved 7 June 2006) Pakistan - Library of Congress Country Studies Library of Congress Country Studies Baluch - U.S. Library of Congress Baloch - Britannica Online Similarity in languages Balochi kurdi english 1 wush wush happy 2 sur sur red 3 bras bra brother 4 duzshmn Duzshmn enemy 5 tuni tuni thristy The days names in Balochi and in kurdish r also same Source Site northerniraq.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3516
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