Dargwa language
| Dargin | |
|---|---|
| дарган мез dargan mez | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Dagestan |
| Ethnicity | Dargins[1] |
Native speakers | 426 000 in Russia (2021 census)[1] |
Northeast Caucasian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dar |
| Glottolog | darg |
Dargwa (Dargwa: дарган мез, dargan mez) is a Northeast Caucasian language. It is spoken in Dagestan and Stavropol Krai between the Dargins. There are about 426,000 speakers. In the Russian part of the territory, Dargin language has the status of an official language, that can be studied at universities. There are also radio programmes using the language.
Alphabet
Originally, the language used the Arabic script, but in 1929, this first changed to Latin, but was changed to Cyrillic, like the rest of the Soviet Union.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dargin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)