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• A Northern Caucasian people who speak a dialect of Lezghi.

• NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies

• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire

• Ghumghum

• Tabasaran carpets

• TABASSARAN: a language of Russia (Europe)

  SIL code:	TAB
  ISO 639-2:	cau

  Population	95,000 mother tongue speakers (97%) out of an ethnic population of 98,000 in Russia (1993 UBS).Population total all countries 96,000.
  Region	Southern Dagestan ASSR. Also spoken in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
  Alternate names	TABASARAN, TABASARANTSY, GHUMGHUM
  Dialects	SOUTH TABASARAN, NORTH TABASARAN (KHANAG).
  Classification	North Caucasian, Northeast, Lezgian.
  Comments	Cyrillic alphabet. Sunni Muslim. Bible portions 1996.

  Ethnologue report for language code: TAB

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