North Dargwa is a Dargin language, sometimes referred to as a language family,[1] spoken by over 133,000 people[2] in south-central Dagestan. The standard written variety of the language is based on the Aqusha and Urakhi dialects of it, and is not mutually intelligible with other varieties.[3] For further information, see Dargwa language.
The North Dargwa language is the largest member of the north-central group of the Dargin languages, both by number and by area. It is approximately as distant from the other North-Central languages as the others, except for Mehweb, which is divergent.[2]
The dialects of North Dargwa are Aqusha, Urakhi, Upper Mulebki, Murego-Gubden, Mugi, and Kadar.[5] Out of these, Urakhi is the largest of the dialects. They are so divergent that some linguists, such as Yuri Koryakov[ru], consider them to be on the boundary between dialects and separate languages altogether.[1][2]
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