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Dargin writing is a written form of communication representing the North East CaucasianDargin language. This language has approximately 439,000 speakers, most of whom live in the Russian republic ofDagestan. Additionally, Dargin writing is used in the Russian Republics ofKalmykia,Khantia-Mansia, andChechnya, as well as nearby countries ofAzerbaijan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Ukraine, andUzbekistan.^[1][2]

The Dargins used the Arabic alphabet for centuries before the adoption of Latin.

The Arabic alphabet for Dargwa, before it was replaced by Latin in 1928, looked like this:

In 1892,Peter von Uslar published his grammar on theUrakhi dialect (or Khyurkili), which included an alphabet for it in Cyrillic. It is displayed below.^[5]

а	ӕ	в	ԝ	г	ӷ	гᷱ	д
е	ж	ђ	з	ӡ	һ
і	ј	к	қ		кᷱ	л	м
н	о	п	ԥ	ԛ		р	с
т	ҭ	у	х	ц		ч
ш

In 1911, it was modified further.^[6]

The Arabic alphabet was adapted as the Dargin phonetics alphabet in 1920, but it was poorly adapted to the sounds of theDargin language. So in 1928, as part of the All-Union project onRomanization, theLatin-based alphabet was adopted for Dargin. In the same year, the first primer in this alphabet was published (cupanov r. Nuşala ʐaꝗ-sawet. Mәħәc-qala, 1928). Initially the Dargin Romanized alphabet had no capital letters.

a	b	c	ꞓ	ç	d	e	ә	f
g	ǥ	ƣ	h	ⱨ	ħ	i	j	k
ⱪ	l	m	n	o	p		q	ꝗ
r	s	ş	ꟍ	t	t̨	u	v	x
		z	ⱬ	ƶ	ⱬ̵

After the reform of 1932, capital letters were introduced, some Latin letters were excluded and the alphabet took the form shown in the table below:

TheCyrillic alphabet was adopted in 1938. In the 1960s, the letter ПI, пI was added.

• Appendix:Cyrillic script
• Dargin language(in Russian)
• Dargwa basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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