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Dargwa (дарган мез, dargan mez) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Dargin people in the Russian republic Dagestan. It is the literary and main dialect of the dialect continuum constituting the Dargin languages.[2] The four other languages in this dialect continuum (Kajtak, Kubachi, Itsari, and Chirag) are often considered variants of Dargwa. Korjakov (2012) concludes that Southwestern Dargwa is closer to Kajtak than it is to North-Central Dargwa.[3]

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Dargwa
дарган мез dargan mez
Native to	Russia
Region	Dagestan
Ethnicity	590,000 Dargins (2010 census)[1]
Native speakers	490,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Dargin Dargwa
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Dagestan
Language codes
ISO 639-2	dar
ISO 639-3	dar (also Dargin languages)
Glottolog	darg1241 sout3261

Dargwa uses the Cyrillic script.

According to the 2002 Census, there are 429,347 speakers of Dargwa proper in Dagestan, 7,188 in neighbouring Kalmykia, 1,620 in Khanty–Mansi AO, 680 in Chechnya, and hundreds more in other parts of Russia. Figures for the Lakh dialect spoken in central Dagestan[4] are 142,523 in Dagestan, 1,504 in Kabardino-Balkaria, 708 in Khanty–Mansi.^{[verification needed]}

Phonology

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Consonants

Like other languages of the Caucasus, Dargwa is noted for its large consonant inventory, which includes over 40 phonemes (distinct sounds), though the exact number varies by dialect. Voicing, glottalization (as ejectives), fortition (which surfaces as gemination), and frication are some of the distinct features of consonants in Dargwa. Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion of an epiglottal ejective by some dialects such as Mehweb, which it may be the only language in the world to use phonemically.[5]

		Labial		Dental		Postalveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Pharyngeal/ Epiglottal	Glottal
		lenis	fortis	lenis	fortis	lenis	fortis		lenis	fortis	lenis	fortis
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	voiced	b		d					ɡ		ɢ1		ʡ1
	voiceless	p	pː2	t	tː2				k	kː2	q	qː2		ʔ
	ejective	pʼ		tʼ					kʼ		qʼ		ʡʼ2
Affricate	voiced			d͡z1		d͡ʒ1
	voiceless			t͡s	t͡sː2	t͡ʃ	t͡ʃː2
	ejective			t͡sʼ		t͡ʃʼ
Fricative	voiceless	f1		s	sː2	ʃ	ʃː2	ç1	x	xː2	χ2	χː2	ʜ2
	voiced	v1		z		ʒ			ɣ1		ʁ		ʢ	ɦ2
Trill						r
Approximant		w2		l				j

1. Present in the literary standard of Dargwa, but not some other dialects.
2. Present in some dialects, but not the literary standard.

• The source is rather ambiguous in its using the term "laryngeal" for a presumed column of consonants that includes both a "voiced" and a "glottalized" plosive. A voiced glottal plosive cannot be made, because the glottis needs to be closed, and an ejective consonant requires an additional closure further up the vocal tract. Pending clarification, this row has been transcribed here as an epiglottal column and a glottal stop, both found in many other East Caucasian languages.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə
Open		a

The Dargwa language features five vowel sounds /i, e, ə, a, u/. Vowels /i, u, a/ can be pharyngealized as /iˤ, uˤ, aˤ/. There may also be a pharyngealized mid-back vowel [oˤ] as a realization of /uˤ/, occurring in the Megeb dialect.[5]

Orthography

The current Dargwa alphabet is based on Cyrillic as follows:

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Гъ гъ	Гь гь	Гӏ гӏ	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж	З з
И и	Й й	К к	Къ къ	Кь кь	Кӏ кӏ	Л л	М м	Н н	О о	П п	Пӏ пӏ
Р р	С с	Т т	Тӏ тӏ	У у	Ф ф	Х х	Хъ хъ	Хь хь	Хӏ хӏ	Ц ц	Цӏ цӏ
Ч ч	Чӏ чӏ	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

Grammar

Verb

TAM

Assertive (finite) forms

Assertive (finite) forms [6]

TAM CATEGORY	MEANING	ASPECT	MODIFIER	PREDICATIVE MARKER	NEGATION	EXAMPLE
DERIVED FROM THE PROGRESSIVE STEM ( BASIC STEM + -a)
Present	1. all types of present situations including actual and habitual situations, 2. historic present, 3. close future: the speaker‘s intention	IPF	[-ti]	PERSON / PRESENT (–da/–di/–ca=b)	reduplication or negative auxiliary	anwar-ri kaRar luk’-a–ca=b (Anwar is writing a letter)
Past Progressive	a progressive situation in the past	IPF	-ti	PAST (–di)		it uč’-a-Ti–di (He was reading)
DERIVED FROM THE PRETERITE STEM ( BASIC STEM + -ib/-ub/-ur/-un):
Aorist	any completed action in the past	PF	-	PERSON (–da/–di)	negative auxiliary
Imperfect	unspecified imperfective meaning in the past (both durative and multiplicative situations)	IPF	-	PERSON (–da/–di)		hin ha.ruq-ib
Perfect	perfect (a completed action whose results are still presently actual)	PF	-	PERSON /PRESENT (–da/–di/–ca=b)		jabu-l hin d=er{-ib–ca=d (The horse has drunk up the whole of the water)
Pluperfect	a completed action in the past preceding another past action	PF	-li	PAST (–di)
*Evidential Present	1. inference from non-trivial results of a situation that still exist at the moment of speech 2. subject resultative:	IPF	-	PERSON/PRESENT (–da/–di/–ca=b)		jabu hinni b=u{-ib–ca=b (The horse has had a drink of water)
*Evidential Past	1. inference from non-trivial results that existed in the past subject resultative in the past	IPF	-li	PAST (–di)
Resultative	resultative (state of the patient)	-	-li	PERSON /PRESENT (–da/–di/–ca=b)		jabu mura-l b=uK-un-ni–ca=b 'The horse has eaten its fill of hay.‘
Experiential	experiential	-	-ci	PERSON /PRESENT (–da/–di/–ca=b)		ni}a-la }a=b b=uZ-ib-ti–ca=b d=eqel juz-i d=elk'-un-ti ̳There have been in our village those who had written many books'.
Habitual Past	a habitual action in the past	IPF	-a-d-i, -a-T-i, -iri/-ini or -aj	no separable predicative morphemes	reduplication	harzamina b=urs-iri di-la waba-l 'My mother used to tell (this story).‘
DERIVED FROM THE OBLIGATIVE STEM ( BASIC STEM + -an):
Future	all types of future situations	IPF	-	PERSON/FUTURE(–da/–di/-ni)	negative auxiliary
Obligative Present	a situation that the speaker believes necessary to be realized	IPF *	-	PERSON /PRESENT (–da/–di/–ca=b)	negative auxiliary
Obligative Past	an irreal situation that the speaker believes necessary to have been realized in the past	IPF *	-	PAST (–di)
DERIVED FROM THE HYPOTHETICAL STEM ( BASIC STEM + -iZ-):
Hypothetical Present	a possible action in the future	-	-	PERSON(–da/–di)	reduplication or negative auxiliary
Hypothetical Past	a past situation that did not take place, but is treated by the speaker as having been possible under certain conditions	-	-	PAST (–di)
Irrealis	used in the apodosis of the irreal conditional clauses	IPF	-	PAST (–di)	reduplication

Kadar dialect

The Kadar dialect (G'adaran lug'at) with 18.000 speakers is a dialect of the Northern Dargin languages, one of the Dargin languages, which is characterized by specific phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features. It is traditionally regarded as a single dialect of Dargwa.[7][8] The vocabulary layer of the Kadar dialect includes words borrowed from Arabic, Persian, Russian and especially Turkic.[9]

References

External links

• An online dictionary of Sanzhi Dargwa (in Dictionaria), by Diana Forker
• Appendix:Cyrillic script
• Dargin language (in Russian)
• Consonant Systems of the North-East Caucasian Languages
• Dargwa basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

На других языках

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[de] Darginische Sprache

Darginisch (oder Dargwa, Eigenbezeichnung дарган мез dargan mez) ist eine Sprache, die von ca. 370.000 Menschen gesprochen wird. Die Sprecher, die Darginer (oder Darginen), leben vorwiegend in der autonomen Republik Dagestan in der Russischen Föderation, kleine Minderheiten auch in Aserbaidschan, Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, der Türkei und Turkmenistan.

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- [en] Dargwa language

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[fr] Dargwa

Le dargwa ou darguine (d'après l'ethnonyme дарган) est une langue de la famille des langues nakho-daghestaniennes, parlée par les Darguines dans la république du Daghestan, en Russie.

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[it] Lingua dargwa

La lingua dargwa,[1] chiamata anche dargua[2] o dargva[3] (.mw-parser-output .Unicode{font-family:TITUS Cyberbit Basic,Code2000,Doulos SIL,Chrysanthi Unicode,Bitstream Cyberbit,Bitstream CyberBase,Bitstream Vera,Thryomanes,Gentium,GentiumAlt,Visual Geez Unicode,Lucida Grande,Arial Unicode MS,Microsoft Sans Serif,Lucida Sans Unicode;font-family:inherit}дарган мез) è una lingua caucasica orientale parlata nella Federazione Russa, nella repubblica del Daghestan.

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[ru] Даргинский литературный язык

Даргинский литературный язык — один из даргинских языков, литературный язык даргинцев, является одним из государственных языков Республики Дагестан[2]. Основан на акушинском диалекте севернодаргинского языка. Преподаётся в большинстве школ в традиционных районах проживания даргинцев, однако в целом владение им часто остаётся пассивным и он лишь ограниченно используется для общения между носителями разных даргинских языков. Чаще при общении каждый говорит на своём языке, либо при полном отсутствии взаимопонимания — на русском языке. Поэтому численность говорящих на нём оценить очень сложно.

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