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{{Short description|Ethnic group mostly in Hazara, Pakistan}}
'''Swatis '''([[Urdu]]: سواتی) are people inhabiting the [[Hazara, Pakistan|Hazara]] division in the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] province of [[Pakistan]]
languages such as Gabri and were native inhabitants of [[Swat valley]] who got [[Pashtunization|Pashtunized]] after Yousafzai occupation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weinreich |first=Matthias |url=https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=AAWhEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&dq=&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-p7KKoZqAAxWJVaQEHfDCA5EQ6AF6BAgGEAM |title='We Are Here to Stay': Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan |date=2022-11-21 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-110588-8 |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sierakowska-Dyndo |first=Jolanta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeMxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 |title=The Boundaries of Afghans' Political Imagination: The Normative-Axiological Aspects of Afghan Tradition |date=2014-08-11 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6572-2 |language=en|quote=of peoples that had lived there before the time of Afghan occupation... are Swati people.|page=54}}</ref> Swatis are sometimes called Tajiks, a common ethnonym used by Pashtuns to describe their neighbours.
[[WP:RSPIMPROVE]]<ref name=s>{{Cite web |title=DARDESTĀN |url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dardestan-|website=Encyclopedia Iranica|quote=As use of Dardic languages has declined, ethnonyms have shifted. In the west the residents of Kabul Kōhestān became Islamicized in the early 19th century, and Pashto speakers now call them Tajiks, after the Persian speakers across the Hindu Kush mountains in Central Asia}}[[WP:INTEGRITY]]</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schoeberlein |first=John Samuel |url=https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=mvraAAAAMAAJ&q=dardic+tajiks&dq=dardic+tajiks&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-uvqO2LCAAxXEdaQEHQORBIsQ6AF6BAgJEAM |title=Identity in Central Asia: Construction and Contention in the Conceptions of "Özbek", "Tâjik", "Muslim", "Samarqandi" and Other Groups |date=1994 |publisher=Harvard University |pages=137 |language=en|quote=The ethnic groups speaking Dardic languages in Afghanistan called themselves “Tājiks".}}</ref> Hemphil (2009) rejects [[Denzil Ibbetson|Ibbetson]]'s (1916:95-6) assertion of Swatis as a "race of Hindu origin" from peninsular India, suggesting, instead, that Swatis show a higher affinity to their neighbours in the northwest and with people in the [[Indus valley]], to the south.<ref>Hemphill, Brian E. (January 2009). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313444560_The_Swatis_of_Northern_Pakistan-emigrants_from_Central_Asia_or_colonists_from_peninsular_India_A_dental_morphometric_investigation "The Swatis of Northern Pakistan—Emigrants from Central Asia or Colonists from Peninsular India?: A Dental Morphometric Approach"- ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', 138.] ''[[ResearchGate]]''. Retrieved 1 August 2023. Please note: Although ''ResearchGate'' is considered "Generally unreliable" (see [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources|WP:RSP]]), this paper was uploaded by its author.</ref>
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