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Chamalals
The Chamalals or Chamalins are an ethnic group of the Avars.
Language
They speak the Chamalin language of the Nakh-Dagestan family. The Chamalin language is divided into two dialects, the Gakvarin and the Gigatlin.
Dispersion
They live in the Republic of Dagestan and the Republic of Chechnya.
Clothes
Men’s clothes consist of a shirt, trousers, an unbuttoned beshmet jacket, a chokha, a sheepskin fur coat, a vest and a jacket, a burka felt cloak. Conical sheepskin papakha hats are used as headgear. The footwear consists of rawhide charyk boots, felt boots, knitted woolen socks. Female clothes consist of a shirt, a dark dress belted with a long brightly colored fabric sash, trousers and a sheepskin coat. The headgear worn was chukhto, a bonnet covering the head, and a hairpouch sewn to it and hanging down the back. Over the chukhto, a headscarf from homemade woolen cloth was worn. The men’s decorations were belts, daggers and cartridge belts sewn to the chokha, women used forehead chains from silver or copper sewn to the chukhto, rings, earrings, neck chains, pendants, beads, copper and silver coins.
