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Abugach

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Abugach
abugach
Total population
assimilated into Koibals
Languages
Turkic
Religion
Islam[1]
Related ethnic groups
Other Samoyedic peoples

The Abugach (Russian: Abugachaev(tsy)) were a people from the region around the Ural Mountains and believed to have been of Samoyed ancestry. Witnesses from the 19th century, however, identify their spoken language as Turkic, as they were Turkicised.[1] They numbered around 100 in 1859.[2] Eventually, the Abugach became one of the ethnic groups that made up the Koibal sub-division of the Khakass, becoming one of the 7 uluses of the Koibal steppe duma [ru].

References

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  1. ^ a b ""Алфавитный список народов, обитающих в Российской Империи"". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  2. ^ Wixman, Ronald (1984). The peoples of the USSR: an ethnographic handbook. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-87332-506-6.