Tubalars
The tubalar (proper name: Tuba , plural: Tubalar , russ. Tubalary / тубалары ) are an indigenous ethnic group in the north of the autonomous Russian Republic of Altai , the northern Altaians is attributed. They speak a dialect of Altai with Tubalarian and live in the Turochak and Choja Rajons on the left bank of the Bija River and in the republic capital Gorno-Altaysk . In the 2002 census, 1565 members of this ethnic group were identified. The results of the 2010 census give their number as 1965. It is believed that the tubalarische Ethnos from a mixture altturkischer, ketischer , samojedischer and possibly Ugric tribes originated. Politically, they are attributed to the indigenous peoples of the Russian north .
According to the Russian Ethnographic Museum, their original religion was shamanism ; today they are followers of Buddhism .
literature
- Leonid Potapow: Tubalary Gornogo Altaja (PDF; 280 kB) In: Etnitscheskaja istorija narodow Asii: Sbornik statei . Nauka, 1972, pp. 52-66 (Russian)
Web links
- The Tubalars and the Chelkans Report from the radio station "Voice of Russia"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Всероссийская перепись населения 2010: Том 4: Национальный состав и владение языками, гражданство: Национальный состав населения