The
Aimaq , also transliterated as
Aimak or
Aymaq, are a collection of
Persian-speaking
nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. Aimaqs are found mostly throughout
Pakistan mostly in the Kyber and Balochistan region and in the West Central
highlands of
Afghanistan, immediately to the north of
Herat, and also to a much lesser amount in the
Khorasan Province of
Iran. They speak a number of subdialects of the
Aimaq dialect of
Persian, however some southern groups of
Taymani and Maleki Aymaqs have adopted
Pashto.