Chirag language

Chirag
хьаргънилла, xarʁnilla kub
хьугъул мец, ĥuġul
Pronunciation[xarʁnilla kub]
[xuʁul]
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionAgulsky District, Dagestan
EthnicityChirag Dargins
Native speakers
2,000 (2021)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologchir1284
  Chirag

Chirag (Chirag: хьаргънилла, xarʁnilla kub[2]) is a language in the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It is spoken around the village of Chirag, but some speakers have moved to Kaspiysk. Chirag is often considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa,[3] despite not being mutually intelligible with literary Dargwa.[4] Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa but recognizes that it may be a separate language.[5]

  1. ^ Ganenkov, Dmitry (2021). "Person agreement with inherent case DPs in Chirag Dargwa". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 40 (3): 741–791. doi:10.1007/s11049-021-09520-3.
  2. ^ Polinsky, Maria, ed. (2020). "Languages and Language Names". The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ Friedman, Victor A. (2009). "Sociolinguistics in the Caucasus". In Ball, Martin J. (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415422789.
  4. ^ "Чирагский язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  5. ^ Ethnologue report for Dargwa