Bayat (tribe)

Bayat
	Tamgha of Bayats, which represents the Eurasian eagle-owl according to Mahmud al-Kashgari. According to Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, the Tamgha represents the snowy owl
Regions with significant populations
	Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Syria
Languages
	Azerbaijani, Turkish, Turkmen and Persian
Religion
	Islam
Related ethnic groups
	Oghuz Turks

Bayat (Azerbaijani: Bayat tayfası; Persian: بیات; Turkish: Bayat boyu; Turkmen: Baýat taýpasy) is one of the Oghuz tribes in Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.^[2] When Oghuz Turks started to migrate from the Aral steppes to Khorasan in the 11th and 13th centuries, Bayat people spread throughout the region.^[2]^[3] They are sub-ethnic groups of Turkmens and Azerbaijanis.^[4] The Bayats are Muslim and speak a southern dialect of Azerbaijani language in Azerbaijan and Iran, or their own dialect of Turkish^{[failed verification]} in Turkey,^[5] and Ersari dialect of Turkmen in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The ancient Turkmen proverb says: "Kayi and Bayat tribes shall lead the people" (Turkmen: "Il başy - gaýy-baýat").

^ http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0006111.pdf Archived 2022-04-17 at the Wayback Machine A HISTORICAL AND SEMANTICAL STUDY OF TURKMENS AND TURKMEN TRIBES, Bilkent University
^ ^a ^b Encyclopaedia Iranica. Bayat. Archived 2012-01-22 at the Wayback Machine: Bayāt was one of the twenty-two Oghuz tribes listed in Maḥmūd Kāšḡarī's
^ R. Khanam. Encyclopaedic ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: J-O, том 2. Стр. 126—127
^ "Баяты 1". Russian Museum of Ethnography (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
^ Languages of Iran