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Tsakhur people

Цахуры · Q139760

language area per Glottologcensus counts
12,541
Russia, census 2021
12,557
sum of censuses in 3 countries, 2020-2021
Nakh-Daghestanian
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Russia: 12,541 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 3 countries; together they add up to 12,557. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2020-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 12,541 people identified with the nationality "Цахуры" (Tsakhur people)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 2 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Tsakhur. Glottolog classifies it in the Nakh-Daghestanian family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Цахуры» · [1]
12,541
Mongolia2020 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tsakhur» · [2]
11
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tsakhur» · [3]
5
Sum across 3 countries12,557

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 6,499 · 51.8%Women 6,042 · 48.2%

Urban and rural

Urban 6,084 · 48.5%Rural 6,457 · 51.5%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Republic of Dagestan
10,320
Stavropol Krai
320
Rostov Oblast
214
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
176
Volgograd Oblast
161
Astrakhan Oblast
111
Krasnodar Krai
84
Chechen Republic
84
Sverdlovsk Oblast
79
Saratov Oblast
73

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Tsakhur

  1. Nakh-Daghestaniannakh1245
  2. Daghestaniandagh1238
  3. Lezgiclezg1248
  4. Samurnucl1321
  5. Western Samurwest2428
  6. Tsakhurtsak1249

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

ChechensAvarsDarginsIngush peopleLezginsLak peopleTabasaran peopleAghul peopleRutuliansAndi peopleTsez peopleKarata peopleBezhta peopleAkhvakh peopleBotlikh peopleUdi peopleHunzib peopleGodoberi peopleArchi peopleTindi peopleKhwarshi peopleHinukh peopleKubachi peopleChamalal people

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Mongolia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kazakhstan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)