Tsʼakhur

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Tsʼakhur is the self-designation of the Tsakhur people, a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group primarily inhabiting regions of southern Dagestan in Russia and northern Azerbaijan.

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Tsʼakhur canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian people
ethnic group
countryOfCitizenship Azerbaijan
Russia
culturalArea Dagestani highlands
northwestern Azerbaijan
endonym Tsʼakhur
ethnicMinorityOf Azerbaijan
Dagestan
ethnicRegion Gakh District
Rutulsky District
Tsakhursky rural settlement
Zaqatala District
ethnonymFor Tsakhur people
exonym Tsakhur
linked to: Tsakhurs
hasAutonym ЦIахьнай (Tsʼaxnay)
hasMinorityStatusIn Azerbaijan
Russia
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages
languageSubfamily Lezgic languages
linked to: Lezgic
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
ergative language
locatedIn Azerbaijan
Northern Azerbaijan
Republic of Dagestan
Russian Federation
linked to: Russia

Southern Dagestan
linked to: Dagestan
nativeLanguage Tsakhur language
partOf Northeast Caucasus
partOfEthnoLinguisticGroup Dagestani peoples
Peoples of the Caucasus
region Caucasus
relatedEthnicGroup Aghuls
linked to: Aghul

Lezgins
Rutuls
Tabasarans
religionBranch Islam
selfDesignationOf Tsakhur people
traditionalOccupation agriculture
animal husbandry
traditionalReligion Sunni Islam
traditionalReligionBranch Sunni Islam of the Shafi‘i school
traditionalSettlementType mountain villages
usesScript Cyrillic script
Latin script

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Tsakhurs endonym Tsʼakhur
Tsʼakhur endonym Tsʼakhur