Kumyks
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Kumyks are a Turkic ethnic group living in Dagestan, Chechnya and North Ossetia. They are the largest Turkic people in the North Caucasus.
Kumyks
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 426,212 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation. Until the 20th century Kumyk was the lingua-franca of the Northern Caucasus.
Kumyk alphabet from newly introduced Latin school book (1935).