Chirag language

Chirag
хьаргънилла, xarʁnilla kub
хьугъул мец, ĥuġul
Pronunciation[xarʁnilla kub]
[xuʁul]
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionAgulsky District, Dagestan
Ethnicity2,300 Chirag Dargins (2019–2024)
Native speakers
2,000 (2021)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologchir1284
  Chirag

Chirag (Chirag: хьаргънилла, xarʁnilla kub) is a language in the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It is spoken around the village of Chirag, but some speakers have moved to Kaspiysk. Chirag is often considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa, despite not being mutually intelligible with literary Dargwa. Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa but recognizes that it may be a separate language.