Dargin language
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[[Category:Northeast Caucasian languages]]
{{Incubator|code= dar}}
{{language
|name=Dargin
|nativename=дарган мез ''dargan mez''
|familycolor=Caucasian
|states=[[Russia]]
|region=[[Dagestan]]
|speakers=439,000
|fam1=[[Languages of the Caucasus|Caucasian]] ''(geographical convention)''
|fam2=[[North Caucasian languages|North]] ''(disputed)''
|fam3=[[Northeast Caucasian languages|Northeast]]
|iso2=dar
|iso3=dar
}}
The '''Dargin''' or '''Dargwa language''' is spoken by the [[Dargins|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]] [[alphabet]]s to write their language, which is one of the literary languages of [[Dagestan]].
As per the [[Russian Census (2002)|2002 Census]], there are 429,347 speakers of Dargwa proper in Dagestan, 7,188 in neighbouring [[Kalmykia]], 1,620 in [[Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug|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.
==External links==
*[http://www.durov.com/linguistics4/abdullayev-67.htm Dargin language] {{ru icon}}
[[Category:Northeast Caucasian languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Russia]]
[[Category:Dagestan]]
{{Lang-stub}}
[[ca:Darguà]]
[[de:Darginische Sprache]]
[[eo:Dargina lingvo]]
[[fr:Dargwa]]
[[ko:다르구아어]]
[[ms:Bahasa Dargin]]
[[pt:Língua dargínica]]
[[ru:Даргинские языки]]
[[fi:Dargvan kieli]]