The 'Dargin' or 'Dargwa language' is spoken by the
Dargin people of western
Dagestan. It is a
dialect continuum with three principal dialects, and its people are
Sunni-
Muslims. Dargwa peoples use a modified version of the
Cyrillic alphabets to write their language, which is one of the literary languages of
Dagestan.
As per the
2002 Census, there are 429,347 speakers of Dargwa proper in Dagestan, 7,188 in neighbouring
Kalmykia, 1,620 in
Khantia-Mansia, 680 in
Chechnya, and hundreds more in other parts of Russia. Figures for the Lakh dialect are 142,523 in Dagestan, 1,504 in
Kabardino-Balkaria, 708 in Khantia-Mansia.
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Dargin language