Yomut

Turkmen tribe Ethnic group YomutYomutA Yomut Turkmen family in traditional attire, Cheleken Island, early 20th century.Regions with significant populationsTurkmenistan and Iran, east coast of Caspian SeaLanguagesTurkmen (Yomut dialect), PersianReligionSunni Islam, Naqshbandieh SufismRelated ethnic groupsTurkmens, Iranian Turkmens The Yomut (Turkmen: Ýomut, Persian: یَمود/یُمود ) is a large ethnographic group within the Turkmen people and historically one of the five major tribes of Turkmenistan. The Yomut have maintained a distinct cultural identity and continue to live primarily in Turkmenistan, Iran, and Uzbekistan. The earliest depictions and descriptions of the Yomut date back to the 16th century. The first official guidebook about the Yomut and the neighboring ethnic groups was written by Clement Augustus de Bode, titled On the Yamud and Goklan Tribes of Turkomania. Historical and modern Yomut tribes The nineteenth-century ethnographic accounts provide some of the earliest detailed descriptions of the Yomut internal divisions. According to Charles A. de Bode's On the Yomud and Goklan Tribes of Turkomania, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in the