Dargwa

Dargwa (дарган мез)

Dargwa or Dargin is a North East Caucasian language with about 439,000
speakers, most of whom live in the Russian republic of Dagestan. There are
also Dargwa speakers in the republics of Kalmykia, Khantia-Mansia and Chechnya,
in other parts of the Russian Federation, and in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Dargwa was written with the Arabic alphabet 1926, when the Latin alphabet was
adopted. Since 1937 a version of the Cyrillic alphabet has been used to write
Dargwa.

Dargwa alphabet and pronunciation

Dargwa alphabet and pronunciation

Notes

  • E = [e] after consonants
  • Letters in blue are only used in Russian names and loanwords
  • Information about the pronunciation of Dargwa compiled by Wolfram Siegel

Links

Information about the Dargin/Dargwa language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dargwa_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=DAR

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