Itsari language

Itsari
Native to Russia
Region Dagestan
Native speakers
2,000 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog itsa1239[2]

Itsari is a language from the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia spoken in the village Itsari by about 2,000 people.[1] It is often considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa. The Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa, but recognizes that it may be a separate language.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Linguist List, lang description, Dargwa
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Itsari". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Dargwa at Ethnologue

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