Dolgans
Turkic ethnic group native to Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the family name, see Dolgan (surname).
Dolgans (Russian: Долганы; Dolgan: Долган, Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака (Sakha); Yakut: тыа-киһи) are an ethnic group who mostly inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. They are descended from several groups, particularly Evenks,[2] one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North. Dolgans are the most closely related to the Sakha. They adopted a Turkic language sometime after the 18th century.[2] The 2010 Census counted 7,885 Dolgans. This number includes 5,517 in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District.
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Total population | |
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7,911[citation needed] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Russia | 7,885[1] |
Languages | |
Dolgan, Russian | |
Religion | |
Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Yakuts and Evenks |
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Dolgan speak the Dolgan language,[3] which is closely related to the Yakut language.[2]