Guaye (self-name: adyghe) is one of the Adyghe (Circassian) subethnos. Adyghe pronunciation - goaye . In the Russian historiography and ethnography of the Caucasus , Goya was known before the end of the Russian-Caucasian war . After the end of the war, the Goyans no longer met, their dialect of the Adyg language was also lost.
In 1857, Leontiy Yakovlevich Lyul'e pointed out the branching of a small Goaiah tribe, to the following influential names: Brzegatl, Gunai, Datca, Ecuas, Kardzhan, Kosebich, Mat, Memet, Migioquio, Neuik, Pshuiik, Sepene, Tletserok, Tletkhoz, Lear. .
Literature
- Adyghe (Circassian) Encyclopedia. Moscow, 2006