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Tindi
The Tindi (Tindal, Ideri, Idarii, Idaral) are an ethnic group of the Avars.
Language
The Tindi language belongs to the Andi subgroup of the Avar-Ando-Tsezic group of the Nakh-Dagestan language family. It is closest to the Bagval and Chamala languages. The Tindi and Bagval languages have particularly much in common, and in what relates to the vocabulary, there is a lot in common between the Angida dialect of the Tindi language and the Chamala language. The Tindi also speak Russian, Avar and Chechen languages.
Dispersion
They live in the Western Dagestan (the villages Tindi, Aknada, Angida, Tissi, Echeda, Gunduchi, Ashcha, Sanukh, Mukharkh, Tenla, Gadaychi, Gvinachi, Khalikh, Bekhvatluchi, Tissi-Akhitli and Shuguri of the Tsumada district), also in the Aknada and Angida villages of the Kizilyurt district, partially in the Pyatiletka village of the Khasavyurt district. There are also many Tindi migrants in other villages of the Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, Babayurt and Kizlyar districts of Dagestan.
