
(from the article `Caucasian peoples`) ...Kumyk, like the other Kipchak Turks, are largely Muslim. Their language was for some three centuries the lingua franca of the region, but in the ... ...of Turkic speakers between the middle Volga and southern Urals, comprising the Bashkir, Chuvash, and Tatars. A second cluster, in the North ... ...
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Member of a Turkic-speaking people living in the northern Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessian republics of the northern Caucasus, Russia. They are Sunni Muslims and mostly engaged in...
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