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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
Dolgans (Russian: Долганы; Dolgan: Долган, Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака (Sakha); Yakut: тыа-киһи) are a Turkicized Tungusic 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 Evenks. They adopted a Turkic language sometime in the early 19th century.[2] The 2010 Census counted 7,885 Dolgans. This number includes 5,517 in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District.
Dolgan speak the Dolgan language,[3] which is closely related to the Yakut language.[2]
- ^ Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity (in Russian)
- ^ a b c "Dolgan people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ Hickey, Raymond (14 May 2012). The Handbook of Language Contact. John Wiley & Sons. p. 728. ISBN 978-1-4443-1816-6. Retrieved 26 August 2012.