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Dargin languages

Dialect continuum of Northeast Caucasian languages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dargin languages
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The Dargin languages consist of a dialect continuum of over 60[3] Northeast Caucasian languages or dialects spoken by the Dargin people in southcentral Dagestan. Kajtak, Kubachi, Itsari, Mehweb and Chirag are often considered dialects of the same Dargin/Dargwa language. Ethnologue lists these under a common Dargin language, but also states that these may be separate languages from Dargwa proper.[citation needed] Reasons for classifying the southern group of dialects from the northern group is that speakers of the southern dialects have been reported as treating the literary Aqusha dialect as a foreign language.[4] Due to the linguistic fragmentation of the Dargin languages, speakers use Russian as a lingua franca.[5]

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Classification of Dargin languages according to Koryakov 2021.[2]
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Classification

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The Dargin languages are classified as follows by Koryakov 2021:[2]

Dargin

    • Northern-central group
    • Southern group
      • Ashti-Kubachi
      • Sanzhi-Itsari
      • Sanakari-Chakhrizhi (unclassified)
      • Amuzgi-Shiri
        • Amuzgi
        • Shiri
      • Southwestern Dargwa
        • Tanti
        • Sirhwa
        • Upper Vurquni/Amuq-Khuduts-Kunki
    • Chirag
    • Kaitag group

Mutalov 2021 proposes a different classification:[6]

Dargin languages

Glottolog uses a different classification, based on Koryakov 2012.[7][8]

Dargwic

    • Chirag
    • Kubachi
    • North-Central Dargwa
      • Megeb
      • North Dargwa
        • Cudaxar
        • Gapshin-Butrin
        • Kadarskij
        • Muirin
          • Dejbuk
          • Xarbuk
        • Nuclear North Dargwa
          • Aqusha-Uraxi
          • Mugin
          • Murego-Gubden
          • Upper Mulebki
    • South Dargwa
      • Kajtak
      • Southwestern Dargwa
        • Amuzgu-Shiri
        • Sanzhi-Icari
        • Sirhwa-Tanty
        • Upper-Vurqri
          • Amux
          • Khuduts
          • Qunqi
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Phonology

The following chart is a collective phoneme inventory of all Dargin languages.

  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.

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