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Excerpt from The Phonology of the Bakhtiari, Badakhshani, and Madaglashti Dialects of Modern Persian: With Vocabularies
Though thus figuring as Haftlang this family is said to have originated from a boy of the Papi tribe of Lurs, who was ejected by his fellow tribesmen and recalcitrant subjects, and strayed into the Bakhtiari country from the west of Luristan.
Till the middle of last century the Chaharlang were the dominant tribal group, and it was only Ja'far Quli Khan, the grandfather of the present Haftlang Khans, who succeeded in extending their sway and establishing the general ascendancy of the Haftlang.
The Chaharlang are now numerically inferior and confined principally to the south-east portion of the country, where they live a more or less sedentary life, and to its northern and western frontiers, where they are nomadic.
The large majority of the Haftlang are nomadic, and in the course of their seasonal migrations cover all the central part of the tribal territory.
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