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Ossetians
The
Ossetians
or
Ossetes
(, ; дигорæ, дигорæнттæ, ) are an
Iranian
ethnic group
of the
Caucasus Mountains
, indigenous to the region known as
Ossetia
. They speak
Ossetic
, an
Iranian language
of the
Eastern
branch of the Indo-European languages family, with most also fluent in
Russian
as a second language. The Ossetians are mostly
Eastern Orthodox Christian
, with a
Muslim
minority.
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