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  • proper noun A Turkic people, who inhabit the Taymyria region in the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Красноярский край) in Russia.
  • proper noun The language of the aforementioned people.

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Examples

  • Beginning in the eighteenth century, discoveries of intact mammoths made northern Siberia famous as the domain of "rats beneath the ice," as the local Dolgan people dubbed mammoth remains.

    Books: Mammoth Distortions 2002

  • He often talked of the advantages of mixed marriages, being of opinion, under the inspiration of memory or hope, I know not which, that a Dolgan woman was the most eligible

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • The Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelter, gets the bulk of its donations from corporations, and executive Bob Dolgan said it doesn't accept candy, chips and soda.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Dolgan South Siberian Sayan Turkic Tuvan (Soyot, Uriankhai) Tofa Yenisei Turkic Khakas Fuyü

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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