Digor

E417310

Digor is a dialect of the Ossetian language spoken primarily in the western part of North Ossetia–Alania in the Caucasus region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Digor canonical 1
Digoron 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Ossetian
closelyRelatedTo Iron Ossetian ONNED1
Ossetian NERFINISHED
country Russia
educationUse limited use in local education
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Digor Ossetians NERFINISHED
Ossetians NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Digor Ossetian
Digor
surface form: Digoron
hasCase ablative
allative
comitative
dative
equative
genitive
nominative
hasDialect Iron-Digor continuum
hasGender no grammatical gender
hasNumber plural
singular
historicalRelation descends from Scytho-Sarmatian dialect continuum
influencedBy Russian
neighboring Caucasian languages
isDialectOf Ossetian language
surface form: Ossetian
languageBranch Iranian languages
languageCode no separate ISO 639-3 code (grouped under Ossetian oss)
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageSubbranch Eastern Iranian languages
lexicalFeature conservative Iranian vocabulary elements
linguisticTypology SOV word order
agglutinative features
mediaUse limited presence in regional media
morphologicalFeature rich case system
mutualIntelligibility partially intelligible with Iron Ossetian
partOf Ossetian language
phonologicalFeature retention of certain archaic consonant clusters
primaryRegion North Ossetia
surface form: western North Ossetia–Alania
region North Caucasus
spokenIn Caucasus region
North Ossetia–Alania NERFINISHED
Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
standardizationStatus less standardized than Iron Ossetian
status minority language variety in Russia
subclassOf Eastern Iranian language variety
usedFor local cultural expression
oral communication
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Дигор (Digor) hasExonym Digor
subject surface form: Дигор
Digor hasAlternativeName Digor
this entity surface form: Digoron