Chamalals

Chamalal people

Chamalal people

Ethnic group of Dagestan, Russia

The Chamalals are an indigenous people of Dagestan, North Caucasia living in a few villages in the Tsumadinsky District on the left bank of the Andi-Koysu river. They have their own language, Chamalal, and primarily follow Sunni Islam, which reached the Chamalal people around the 8th or 9th century. There are about 5,000 ethnic Chamalals (1999, Kubrik).[2] They are culturally similar to the Avars.

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Neighboring peoples are the Godoberi, Avars, Bagvalals, and Tindis.

References

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    "В.Тишков, Э.Кисриев. Множественные идентичности между теорией и политикой (пример Дагестан)" (PDF) (in Russian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-10. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
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    "Chamalal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2022-10-12.


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