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
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Native toRussia
RegionDagestan
EthnicityDargins[1]
Native speakers426 000 in Russia  (2021 census)e18
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3dar

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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