Dargwa language: It is a native to the region and spoken by 350,000 people in Western Dagestan with two dialects Dargwa and Lakh. The language has two dialects, and its people are Sunni-Muslims. Dargwa peoples use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabets to write their language, which is one of the official languages of Dagestan.
The Dargins are considered to be an indigenous people of the Caucasus, that lived relatively isolated from foreign influence until the beginning of the great Arab conquests in the 8th c., when they were exposed to Islam for the first time.
Although introduced to Islam in the 8th c., the Dargins remained primarily animist until the15th c., when Muslim influence became stronger, with Persian traders coming in from the south, and the Golden Horde increasingly pressing from the north.
Dargins and other peoples rebelled, and in 1921, the Dagestan autonomous soviet republic was established, including the Dargin population.
Dargins is a Dargwa language, it is endemic to the region and spoken mainly in Western Dagestan with two dialects Dargwa and Lakh.
Dargwa peoples use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabets to write their language, which is one of the official languages of Dagestan.
As per the 2002 census, there are 429,347 Dargins speakers in Dagestan, 7,188 in neighbouring Kalmykia, 1,620 in Khantia-Mansia, 680 in Chechnya and hundreds more in other parts of Russia.
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