Ormur

The Ormur, also called Burki or Baraki, are an Eastern Iranian people whose main settlement is Baraki Barak in Afghanistan's Logar valley, with another homeland at Kaniguram in South Waziristan. Their tongue, Ormuri, belongs to the Ormuri-Parachi group and its name is said to derive from the Pashto word for fire; most Ormur also speak Pashto.

A tradition traced to Herodotus derives the Baraki from Barca in Libya, whose people Darius I transplanted to Bactria during his reign of 522 to 486 BC. The Baraki were settled around Logar by the time Babur seized Kabul in 1504, and his memoirs list Ormuri, then called Birki, among languages heard around the city.

Bayazid Khan, the sixteenth-century leader of the Pir Roshan movement, wove Ormuri words into his work Khairul-Bayan. Around 1800 eight to ten thousand Ormur families still lived in Logar, alongside smaller communities in Waziristan.