Achomi

The Achomi, who call themselves Khodmooni, are a Southwestern Iranian people of the arid southern Persian region of Irahistan, in the present-day Larestan district of Fars, centred on Lar, Khonj and Bastak. Their Achomi or Lari tongue descends from Middle Persian and is unintelligible with standard Persian; most are Shafi'i Sunni Muslims.

From the early twelfth century the local Miladian dynasty ruled Laristan, its lords making Lar a southern trade hub in the thirteenth century. Ibn Battuta passed through Khonj in 1333 and praised its Shafi'i hermits.

The local rulers kept their autonomy until the Safavids deposed them in 1610 under Shah Abbas I. After Isfahan fell in 1722 the region passed through Afghan and Nader Shahi rule, Bastak its leading town. As Persian Gulf traders many settled on the Arab shore, where they were called Ajam or Huwala.