The Koibal are one of the subdivisions of the Khakass people of Southern Siberia. Although they speak the Turkic

Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken...

 Koybal language, the Koibal have mixed ancestry. They formed in the late 19th century from the merger of the Abugach

Abugach

The Abugach, or to the Russians Abugachaevtsy, were a people in the general region of the Ural Mountains who are believed to have been of Samoyed ancestry. However the earliest actual knowledge of them in the 19th century identifies them as speaking a Turkic language. They latter were one of the...

, Baikot, Kandyk, Tarazhak, Kol and Arsh peoples. Most of these people are believed to have been of ancestry more closely related to Samoyedic peoples

Samoyedic peoples

The term Samoyedic peoples is used to describe peoples speaking Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family. They are a linguistic grouping, not an ethnic or cultural one. The name derives from the obsolete term Samoyed used in Russia for some indigenous peoples of Siberia...

 or Kettic

Yeniseian languages

The Yeniseian language family is spoken in central Siberia.-Family division:0. Proto-Yeniseian...

 peoples than to Turks.

Prior to the rise of Communism the Koibal were officially Russian Orthodox. However they had retained many Shamanist and Animist customs.

Sources

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