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MOLBOG 531
The Moghols of Afghanistan are now in a process of total assimilation with
the Tajik and Pushtun. It can be foreseen that they will have lost their ethnic
identity within a generation or two.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Iwamura, Shinobu, ed. The Zirni Manuscript: A Persian-Mongolian Glossary and Grammar.
Transcribed and translated in collaboration with Natsuki Osada and Tadashi
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the Kyoto University Expeditions to the Karakoram and the Hindukush, 1955.
Kyoto: University of Kyoto, 1961.
Iwamura, Shinobu, and Schurmann, H. F. "Notes on Mongolian Groups in Afghanistan."
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Schurmann, Herbert Franz. The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghols
and Related Peoples of Afghanistan. The Hague: Mouton, 1962.
Articles
Bacon, Elizabeth. "Review of H. F. Schurmann: The Mongols of Afghanistan." Central
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Ferdinand, Klaus. "Ethnographic Notes on Chahar Aimaq, Hazara and Moghol." Acta
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Leech, Robert. "A Vocabulary of the Moghal Aimaks." Journal of the Asiatic Society
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Alfred Janata
MOLBOG The Molbog, one of the minor Muslim groups of the Philippines,
are the aboriginal population of Balabac Island, located between Palawan and
Borneo. The Molbog constitute the majority of the overall local population. In
the outer islands of the Balabac archipelago, the Molbog are intermixed with
other Muslim groups, mainly the Sama. Molbog can also be found in the southernmost
tip of Palawan proper, where they have blended with Islamized Palawanon,
and in Banggi, a big island south of Balabac that is in Malaysian territory.
The Molbog in Balabac Municipality number a little over 6,000. There are
perhaps 830 in Batarasa Municipality and no more than 250 on Banggi Island,
altogether not exceeding 7,100.
The Molbog language is classified in the South Palawan linguistic stock, which
includes the languages of Palawanons, Tagbanuas and Bataks. Similarities are
particularly accentuated between Molbog and Palawanon, which have a certain
level of mutual comprehensibility. A majority also speak Tagalog (see Palawanon).
The name "Molbog" derives from malubog, which means "unclear/turbid