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Notes on Tabassaran
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A Northern Caucasian people who
speak a dialect of Lezghi.
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NUPI
- Centre for Russian Studies
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The
Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
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Ghumghum
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Tabasaran
carpets
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TABASSARAN: a language of Russia
(Europe)
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SIL code:
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TAB
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ISO 639-2:
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cau
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Population
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95,000 mother tongue
speakers (97%) out of an ethnic population of 98,000 in Russia (1993
UBS).Population total all countries 96,000.
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Region
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Southern Dagestan ASSR.
Also spoken in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
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Alternate names
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TABASARAN, TABASARANTSY,
GHUMGHUM
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Dialects
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SOUTH TABASARAN, NORTH
TABASARAN (KHANAG).
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Classification
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North Caucasian,
Northeast, Lezgian.
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Comments
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Cyrillic alphabet. Sunni
Muslim. Bible portions 1996.
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Ethnologue
report for language code: TAB
For Further Reading:
Index to JBOC's Rug
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Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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