Baraba Tatars
Paraba, Barama, параба, барама | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Russia | 8,380
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| Languages | |
| Baraba dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Siberian Tatars, Tuvans, Telengits, Teleuts, Chelkans, Chulyms, Shors, Khakas, Altais, Kets, Selkups | |
The Baraba Tatars (Siberian Tatar: параба, бараба, барама, бараба татарлар) are a sub-group of Siberian Tatars and the indigenous people of the Ob-Irtysh interfluve. After a strenuous resistance to Russian conquest and much suffering at a later period from Kyrgyz and Oirat 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. Their historical administrative center was the town of Ton-Tura.