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Chirag language
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.
Based on lexical similarity, Chirag is usually classified as a separate language from other varieties of Dargwa. It has 67% lexical similarity with the North-Central group, 77.6% with the South group, and 69% with Kaitag; within the South group, it has 84% lexical similarity with Qunqi Amuq. It was apparently the first language to diverge from Proto-Dargwa.
Chirag has four vowels: /i/, /e/, /u/, and /a/, along with two "epiglottalized" vowels, /iˁ/ and /aˁ/. Vowel length also exists for most vowels.
In Chirag, stressed syllables are specified for tone.
Chirag has some phonological processes that pertain to specific morphological elements. The plural suffix -e attracts stress and induces vowel deletion on the final syllable of disyllabic nouns (e.g., qisqan 'spider', qisqne 'spiders'). Verbal prefixes have optional front/back vowel harmony.
The permitted syllable structures are CV, CVC, and CVRT.
Chirag is head-final, has fairly flexible word order and is rich with inflectional morphology. It has ergative–absolutive alignment in its case marking; the subject of a transitive verb is overtly marked with ergative case, and the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb are unmarked:
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Chirag language
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.
Based on lexical similarity, Chirag is usually classified as a separate language from other varieties of Dargwa. It has 67% lexical similarity with the North-Central group, 77.6% with the South group, and 69% with Kaitag; within the South group, it has 84% lexical similarity with Qunqi Amuq. It was apparently the first language to diverge from Proto-Dargwa.
Chirag has four vowels: /i/, /e/, /u/, and /a/, along with two "epiglottalized" vowels, /iˁ/ and /aˁ/. Vowel length also exists for most vowels.
In Chirag, stressed syllables are specified for tone.
Chirag has some phonological processes that pertain to specific morphological elements. The plural suffix -e attracts stress and induces vowel deletion on the final syllable of disyllabic nouns (e.g., qisqan 'spider', qisqne 'spiders'). Verbal prefixes have optional front/back vowel harmony.
The permitted syllable structures are CV, CVC, and CVRT.
Chirag is head-final, has fairly flexible word order and is rich with inflectional morphology. It has ergative–absolutive alignment in its case marking; the subject of a transitive verb is overtly marked with ergative case, and the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb are unmarked:
ʡale
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