بلوچ در متون قدیم

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It is important to note that the sources do not mention any leaders. It is likely that the Balōč at this period were a series of tribal communities not sharing any feelings of common ethnicity. In fact, the name Balōč (Balūč) appears to have been a name used by the settled (and especially the urban) population for a number of outlaw tribal groups over a very large area. The etymology is unclear, as is that of Kūč (also written as Kūfeč, Kōfč or—arabized—Qof), a name generally taken to refer to a comparable neighboring tribal community in the early Islamic period. The common pairing of Kūč with Balūč in Ferdowsī (see, e.g., Dehḵodā, s.vv.) suggests a kind of rhyming combination or even duplication, such as is common in Persian and historically related languages (cf. tār o mār). The Balōč may have entered the historical record as the settled writers’ generic nomads. Because of the significance of their activities at this period they would gradually have become recognized as the nomads par excellence in this particular part of the Islamic world. It is possible, for example, that Balūč, along with Kūč, were terms applied to particular populations which were beyond the control of settled governments; that these populations came to accept the appellation and to see themselves in the cultural terms of the larger, more organized society that was established in the major agricultural territories; but they remained, then as now, a congeries of tribal communities of various origins. There is also ethnographic evidence to suggest that Balūč, irrespective of its etymology, may be applied to nomadic groups by the settled population as a generic appellation in other parts of eastern and southern Iran.
B. Spooner, Encyclopedia Iranica, “Baluch: Geography, History, Ethnography”

بنابراین واژه “کرد” و “بلوچ” یک نوع شیوه‌ی زندگی بودند و نه قومیت خاص.  به گمان نویسند واژگانی مانند لر و لک و غیره که برای برخی از گروه‌های ایرانی‌زبان بکار رفته است بیشتر با شیوه‌ی زندگی یا جغرافیای خاصی کار داشته است.  تمامی این گروه‌ها جزو همان قومی ایرانی و شاخه‌ی از آن میباشند.  همچنین واژگان دیگر که برای برخی از زبانها بکار رفته است بیشتر بخاطر نام آن منطقه بوده است.

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