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Notes on Tabassaran
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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:
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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 Notes
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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