Dargwa language
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.
| Dargin | |
|---|---|
| дарган мез <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">dargan mez | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Dagestan |
| Ethnicity | Dargins[1] |
| Native speakers | 426 000 in Russia (2021 census)e18 |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dar |
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.
Dargwa Language Media
References
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