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Name: Dargwa

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Dargintsy; Khiurkilinskii; Dargi; Dargin; Komucki; Kaitak; Kubatschin

Spoken in: Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey

Number of speakers: 510,000 in Russian Federation (2002 Census). Population total all countries: 516,490. Ethnic population: 510,156 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 503523 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 371488 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: dar

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Nakh-Daghestanian (North East Caucasian; Caucasian; North Caucasian (highly contested))

Parent Subgroup: Lak-Dargwa (ldar)

Child Dialects: Akusha; Urkarax; Akkhusha; Urakha-Akhush (dar-aku) Sirzin; Sirxin (dar-sir) Dejbuk (dar-dej) Kubachi; Kubachin; Kubachintsy; Ughbug (dar-kub) Uraxa-Axusha (dar-ura) Kajtak; Kaytak; Xajdak; Kaitak (dar-kaj) Chirag (dar-chi) Itsari (dar-its) Muirin (dar-mui) Xarbuk (dar-xar) Cudaxar; Tsudakhar (dar-cud)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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