Brief detail of Brohi people and Brahvi language.

The Brohis are the dominant and most numerous race in Balochistan. British ethnology documents do not fully determine the Brohi origin except to say;  possibly they are of the Tartars. The fact that other Dravidian languages only exist further south in India has led to several speculations about the origins of the Brohis.

A hypothesis regarding the Brohis is that the Brohis were part of a Dravidian invasion of north-western India in 3rd millennium BC, but unlike other Dravidians who migrated to the south, they remained in Sarawan and Jahlawan since before 2000 BC. 

There is a second theory that; they migrated to Balochistan from inner India during the early Muslim period. Another theory says the Brohis migrated to Balochistan from Central India after 1000 AD. The absence of any older Iranian loanwords in Brahvi supports this hypothesis. The main contributor to Northwestern Iranian language vocabulary is Balochi. Baloch moved to the area from the west as late as the 14th century.

The name Brohi means “Highlander,” as opposed to Narui (Baloch) “Lowlander.” They are divided into a number of tribes or khels (kheil) and are a wandering, unsettled nation. The Brohi always reside in one part of the country in summer and in another during the winter; they likewise change their immediate places of residence many times every year in quest of pasturage for their flocks, a practice which is rare among the Baloch tribes.

The Brohis are equally faithful in adherence to their promises and equally hospitable and on the whole, are preferred as to their general character.

1930 Military report on Balochistan notes that the “Brohi tribe is based on common good and ill; cemented by obligations arising from blood feud. Unsurpassed in strength and hardiness; excellent mountaineers and good marksmen; “mean, parsimonious, avaricious, exceedingly idle.”

There is a varied pattern of language use among the Brahvi: some of the constituent groups predominantly speak the Dravidian Brahvi language, others are bilingual in Brahvi and Balochi, while others are speakers only of Balochi. The bulk of the present Brohi populations are bilingual and sometimes trilingual. Brahvi maybe their mother tongues but they are equally fluent in Balochi, Sindhi, and Saraiki. There are some 4.2 million Brahvi speakers; 4 million live in Pakistan, mainly in the province of Balochistan.

There are no important dialectal differences in Brahvi. Jhalawani (southern, centered on Khuzdar) and Sarawani (northern, centered on Kalat) dialects are distinguished by the pronunciation of *h, which is retained only in the north. Brahvi has been influenced by the Iranian languages spoken in the area, including Persian, Balochi, and Pashto. According to a 2009 UNESCO report, Brahvi is one of the 27 languages of Pakistan is facing the danger of extinction. They classify it in "unsafe" status, the least endangered level out of the five levels of concern (Unsafe, Definitely Endangered, Severely Endangered, Critically Endangered, and Extinct).

Brohis are all Sunni Muslims and their external forms, such as marriage and interment, are practiced according to the tenets of that sect. They are, however, very lax as to religious observances and ceremonies, and very few of their tomans are furnished with a place of worship.

Brohis occupy the great mountainous band extending from the south of Quetta to Lasbela. In the northeast of Kharan, Brohis are numerous. Brohi tribes usually migrate to the plains of Bolan District for winter from Kalat, Mastung, and Quetta districts and return to their homes after winter.

There are three groups of Brohi tribes. The "nucleus" consists of the Achmadzai, Gurguari, Iltazai, Kalandari, Kambrani, Mirwari, Rodeni and the Sumalari, which altogether account for only a small proportion of the total number of Brohis. The majority of the population is divided up between them Jhalawan Brohis (which include the tribes of the Bizanjars, Harunis, Muhammad Hasnis, Mengals, Siapad, Nicharis, Pandranis, Sajdis, and the Zahris), and the Sarawan Brohis (comprising the tribes of the Muhammad Shahi, Bangulzai, Kurd, Lahri, Langov, Raisani, Rustamzai, Sarparh, Satakzai, Shahwani and Zagar-Mengal).