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TheKoibal (Khakas:хойбал,romanized: xoybal) are one of the subdivisions of theKhakass people of Southern Siberia. Although they speak the TurkicKhakas language, the Koibal have mixed ancestry and used to speak aYeniseian language and theKoibal dialect of theKamas language, both of which are now extinct. They formed in the late 19th century from the merger of theAbugach,Baikot [ru],Kandyk,Tarazhak [ru],Kol andArsh peoples. Most of these people are believed to have been of ancestry more closely related toSamoyedic peoples than to Turks. Koibals live in theBeysky District of Khakassia.^[1]

Prior to the rise of Communism the Koibal were officially Russian Orthodox. However they had retained manyShamanist andAnimist customs.

• Wixman, Ronald.The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1984) p. 109.

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