Social:Digor Ossetian
| Digor | |
|---|---|
| дигорон ӕвзаг (digoron ӕvzag) | |
| Pronunciation | [digɔːrɔːn ɐvzɑːg] |
| Native to | North Caucasus |
| Region | North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria |
| Ethnicity | Digors (West Ossetians) |
Native speakers | ca. 100,000 (2010)[1] |
| Cyrillic (current) Arabic, Latin (historical) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Russia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | digo1242[2] |
Digor Ossetian (/ˈdɪɡər/; Template:Lang-os os) also known as Digor Ossetic or Digor-Ossetic, is a dialect of the Ossetic language spoken by the Digor people. It is less widely spoken than Iron, the other extant Ossetian dialect. The two are distinct enough to sometimes be considered separate languages; in the recently published Digor–Russian dictionary, the compiler Fedar Takazov refers to a "Digor language", though the editor in the same book uses "Digor dialect". Until 1939, Digor had a literary language separate from Iron.
Digorian speakers live in the western part of North Ossetia (Digora, Chikola, etc.); in North Ossetia's capital, Vladikavkaz; and in larger cities of Russia . Counts of speakers are largely nonexistent, because Digorians are mostly calculated as Ossetians during census.
See also
- Ossetians
- North Ossetia–Alania
- Digor people
References
- ↑ Bernard Comrie, 1981. The Languages of the Soviet Union, p. 164.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Digor Ossetian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/digo1242.
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