Botlikh people

Botlikh people

The Botlikh people (also Botligh, Botlig, Botlog or Buikhatli) are one of the Andi-Dido peoples of Dagestan. Until the 1930s they were considered a distinct people. Since that time they have been classified as Caucasian Avars and have faced a campaign to have them assimilate into that population.

The Botlig are primarily Sunni Muslims. They numbered 3,354 people in 1926. They speak the Botlikh language which belongs to the Northeast Caucasian language family.

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*Wixman, Ronald. "The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook". (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 31


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