Dargwa language

Dargin
дарган мез dargan mez
Native to	Russia
Region	Dagestan
Ethnicity	Dargins
Native speakers	426 000 in Russia (2021 census)
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Nakh-Dagestan Dargin Dargin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dar
Glottolog	darg

Dargwa (Dargwa: дарган мез, dargan mez) is a Northeast Caucasian language. It is spoken in Dagestan and Stavropol Krai between the Dargins. There are about 426,000 speakers. In the Russian part of the territory, Dargin language has the status of an official language, that can be studied at universities. There are also radio programmes using the language.

Alphabet

Originally, the language used the Arabic script, but in 1929, this first changed to Latin, but was changed to Cyrillic, like the rest of the Soviet Union.