Key facts
- Russia
- 2,551 (2021)
- Azerbaijan
- 4,100
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Lezgin ethnic groups
- Part of
- Dagestani people
- Native language
- Udi
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Population
- 13000
- Image
- Удинка.jpg
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- Commons category
- Udi people
- topic's main category
- Category:Udi people
- language used
- Udi
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Encyclopedic overview
The Udi (or Uti) are a Lezgic people group native to the Caucasus that live mainly in Russia and Azerbaijan, with smaller populations in Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and other countries. Their total number is about 10,000 people. They speak the Udi language, which belongs to the Northeast Caucasian language family. Some also speak Azerbaijani, Russian, Georgian, or Armenian, depending on where they reside. Their religion is Christianity.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Udi people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.