Lyuli

"Mugat" redirects here. For the village in Maharashtra, India, see Mugat (village).
Lyuli
Mugat
Lyuli woman with child at the Bolaq embankment, Kazan, Russia.
Total population
23,500[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Uzbekistan12,000[2]
 Tajikistan4,600[3]
 Kyrgyzstan990[4]
 Russia486[5]
Languages
Persian Romani
Turkic language (mixed speech and dialects)
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Ghorbati, Abdals, Doms

The Lyuli, Jughi or Jugi (self-names: Mugat and Ghorbati) are a branch of the Ghorbati people living in Central Asia, primarily Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and southern Kyrgyzstan; also, related groups can be found in Turkey, and the Balkans,[6] Crimea, Southern Russia and Afghanistan.[7] They speak ethnolects of the Persian and Turkic language and practice Sunni Islam. The terms Lyuli and Jugi are considered pejorative. They have a clan organization (the Lyuli word for "clan" is tupar, the Jughi word is avlod). Division into sub-clans is also practiced. The Lyuli community is extremely closed towards non-Lyuli.[8]

  1. ^ "Lyuli people group in all countries | Joshua Project".
  2. ^ "Lyuli in Uzbekistan".
  3. ^ "Lyuli in Tajikistan".
  4. ^ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей".
  5. ^ "НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ СОСТАВ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ". Perepis2002.ru. Archived from the original (XLS) on 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  6. ^ "TÜRKİYE'DE YAŞAYAN ÇİNGENELERİN SANATSAL OLARAK ELE ALINIŞI" (PDF). Dspace.trakya.edu.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  7. ^ Marushiakova; Popov, Vesselin (2014). "Migrations and Identities of Central Asian 'Gypsies'" – via ResearchGate.
  8. ^ (in Russian) Николай Бессонов. Цыгане и пресса. Эпопея о люли Archived 2007-02-19 at the Wayback Machine - Some photos of Lyulis