Kadar dialect

Kadar
Гъадаран лугъат G'adaran lug'at
Pronunciation[ʁadaran]
Native toRussia
RegionDagestan
Ethnicity18,000 Kadar Dargins (2019–2024)
Native speakers
18,000 (2019–2024)
9,000 (2006)
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologkada1294  Kadarskij
  North Dargwa, with Kadar at the top left of the map

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. The vocabulary layer of the Kadar dialect includes words borrowed from Arabic, Persian, Russian and especially Turkic, due to contact with Kumyk.