Dargwa language

Dargwa
дарган мез
dargan mez
دارگان مەز
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionDagestan
Ethnicity630,000 Dargins (2020 census)[1]
Native speakers
590,000 (2020 census, all Dargin languages)[2]
Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-2dar
ISO 639-3dar (also Dargin languages)
Glottologdarg1241
sout3261
Map of all Dargin varieties

Dargwa (дарган мез, dargan mez) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Dargin people in the Russian republic Dagestan. This article discusses the literary dialect of the dialect continuum constituting the Dargin languages.[3] It is based on the Aqusha and Urakhi dialects of Northern Dargin.

  1. ^ 1. НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ СОСТАВ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ
  2. ^ Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку
  3. ^ Forker D (2019). A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3339225. ISBN 978-3-96110-197-9.