Dargin languages

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Dargin
Dargwa
Geographic distribution	Southcentral Dagestan[citation needed]
Native speakers	590,000 (2020 census)[1]
Linguistic classification	Northeast Caucasian Dargin
Subdivisions	North-Central Kajtak-Shari Southern Chirag
Language codes
ISO 639-2 / 5	dar
ISO 639-3	dar
Glottolog	darg1242
Dargin
Map of individual Dargin languages according to Koryakov 2021.[2]

The Dargin languages consist of a dialect continuum of over 60^[3] Northeast Caucasian languages or dialects spoken by the Dargin people in southcentral Dagestan. Kajtak, Kubachi, Itsari, Mehweb and Chirag are often considered dialects of the same Dargin/Dargwa language. Ethnologue lists these under a common Dargin language, but also states that these may be separate languages from Dargwa proper.^{[citation needed]} Reasons for classifying the southern group of dialects from the northern group is that speakers of the southern dialects have been reported as treating the literary Aqusha dialect as a foreign language.^[4] Due to the linguistic fragmentation of the Dargin langiuages, speakers use Russian as a lingua franca.^[5]