Kadar dialect

For the Dravidian language, see Kadar language.

The Kadar dialect (G'adaran lug'at / Гъадаран лугъат) is a dialect of the North Dargwa language, 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.^[4][1] The vocabulary layer of the Kadar dialect includes words borrowed from Arabic, Persian, Russian and especially Turkic, due to contact with Kumyk.^[5]

Kadar
Гъадаран лугъат G'adaran lug'at
Pronunciation	[ʁadaran][1]
Native to	Russia
Region	Dagestan
Ethnicity	18,000 Kadar Dargins (2019–2024)
Native speakers	18,000 (2019–2024)[2] 9,000 (2006)[3]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Dargin North-Central North Dargwa Kadar
Dialects	Kadar Karamakhi Chankurbe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	kada1294  Kadarskij
North Dargwa, with Kadar at the top left of the map

Phonology

Kadar has 39 consonants and 5 vowels.^[6] Gemination does not occur, as in other Dargin languages, but there are labialized consonants, being [gʷ] and [kʷ].

		Labial	Dental		Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal/ Epiglottal	Glottal
			plain	sib.
Nasal		m	n
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d		d͡ʒ		ɡ	ɢ	ʡ
	voiceless	p	t	t͡s	t͡ʃ		k	q		ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	t͡sʼ	t͡ʃʼ		kʼ	qʼ
Fricative	voiced	v	z		ʒ	(ʝ)		ʁ
	voiceless	f	s		ʃ	ç		χ	ħ	h
Sonorant			l		r	j

Morphology

Case

Kadar has less cases than other Dargin languages.^[7]