Dargwa language

E416662

The Dargwa language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Dargin people in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Dargwa language canonical 6
Dargan language 1
Dargin language 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
agglutinative language
natural language
belongsToMacroArea Eurasia
closelyRelatedTo Lak language
Lezgic
surface form: Lezgian languages
country Russia
family Northeast Caucasian languages
GlottologCode darg1242
GlottologName Dargwa
hasAlternativeName Dargwa language
surface form: Dargan language

Dargwa language
surface form: Dargin language
hasCaseSystem rich case system
hasDialect Akusha dialect
Chirag dialect
Kubachi language
surface form: Kubachi dialect

Akusha dialect
surface form: Megeb dialect

Sirkhi dialect
Akusha dialect
surface form: Tsudakhar dialect

Urakhi dialect
hasGrammaticalFeature noun classes or genders in some analyses
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate over 400000 speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
large consonant inventory
pharyngealized consonants
hasStandardVariety Akusha dialect
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
ISO639-1 none
ISO639-2 dar
isOfficialLanguageIn none
languageBranch Northeast Caucasian languages
surface form: Dargin branch of Northeast Caucasian
languageOf Dargin people
languageStatus vigorous use in home domains
linguisticTypology ergative–absolutive alignment
minorityLanguageOf Russia
morphologyType agglutinative
primaryEthnicGroup Dargin people
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Dagestan
region North Caucasus
script Cyrillic alphabet
spokenIn Russian Federation (Dagestan)
surface form: Republic of Dagestan

Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
subfamily Dargin
surface form: Dargin languages
usedAlongside Russian language
usedAsMediumOfInstruction primary schools in Dargin-populated areas
wordOrder SOV
writingReform Cyrillic-based orthography standardized in Soviet period

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northeast Caucasian languages hasMember Dargwa language
Dargwa language hasAlternativeName Dargwa language
this entity surface form: Dargin language
Dargwa language hasAlternativeName Dargwa language
this entity surface form: Dargan language
Lak language closelyRelatedTo Dargwa language
Akusha Dargwa subdivisionOf Dargwa language
Kubachi language closelyRelatedTo Dargwa language
Dargic languages hasPart Dargwa language
Dargic languages hasMajorLanguage Dargwa language