I did some digging on the Barawani people as I wanted to understand who they were a little closer. I found their ethnic name also was synonymously, “Amarani.” Then trying to search for them in the old archives, I came across something interesting:
There was a Baloch tribe called Amarani, sourcing their origins from the Amran mountains. Now, you may think this is a coincidence, and I would have agreed with you if this was the extent of it. But if you know a bit of history from Southeastern coastal Africa, then you would recall that the Baloch people had a significant impact on the Zanzibari/Swahili coasts.
The Barawa people who we also know as Amarani speak a Swahili dialect, Chimwini, and had historical contact with the Swahili coasts as well. They definitely sourced their language from that cultural horizon.
The interesting thing about the Baloch is that they are Iranian-speaking people with mixed Iranian and South Asian genetic shifts. So it reconciles the Iranic presence in the genetic scores if it was not a distinct influence but Baloch that had the distinct genetic substructure incorporated from a single source with Makrani shift.
The Bantu and Arabian influence comes from the Swahili as well. What is designated under Northeast Africa can be arranged differently. The Ethiopian & Eritrean is a compensation for excess Southern Arabian genetics, so basically it is Somali mixed with Yemeni/Omani genetics. So one has to increase the Arabian and the Somali as well. Because these groups have no genetic history with Ethiopians.
Those mixes account for a significant amount of their diversity, I think.
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