Paraba, Barama, параба, барама | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Russia | 8,380
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Languages | |
Baraba dialect[1] of Siberian Tatar, Russian | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam[1] |
The Baraba (Siberian Tatar: параба, бараба, барама, бараба татарлар) are a sub-group of Siberian Tatars and the indigenous people of the Ob-Irtysh interfluve.[2] After a strenuous resistance to Russian conquest and much suffering at a later period from Kyrgyz and Kalmyk raids, they now live by agriculture — either in separate villages or along with Russians. Some of them still speak the Baraba dialect of Siberian Tatar. They traditionally live on the Baraba steppe.