Kumyks
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Kumyks or Kumyk people are a Turkic ethnic group living in Dagestan, Chechnya and North Ossetia. They are the largest Turkic people in the North Caucasus.
Rifle of the Kumyk Shamhal of Tarki, 19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York
Roubaud, Peter I in Tarki, the Capital of Tarki Shamkhalate
Haidar Bammate, one of the founders of the North Caucasian Republic
Kumyk language
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Kumyk is a Turkic language spoken by about 520,000 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation. Until the 20th century Kumyk was the li
Kumyk alphabet from newly introduced Latin school book (1935).
