For district in Kars Province of Turkey, see Digor, Kars.
Digor
Дигорон ӕвзаг, Digoron ӕvzag
Pronunciation
[digɔːrɔːnɐvzɑːg]
Native to
North Caucasus
Ethnicity
Digors (West Ossetians)
Native speakers
ca. 100,000 (2010)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Eastern
Ossetian
Digor
Writing system
Cyrillic (current) Arabic, Latin (historical)
Official status
Official language in
Russia
North Ossetia
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
digo1242
Digor Ossetian (/ˈdɪɡər/; Ossetian: дигорон ӕвзаг, romanized: digoron ӕvzagpronounced[digɔːrɔːnɐvzɑːg]) 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".
Digor is spoken in the west of the Republic of North Ossetia (Digora, Chikola, etc.) and in neighboring Kabardino-Balkaria.[2] Digor is used far less than Iron at about a one to five ratio while also being non-existent in the Republic of South Ossetia.[2]
Digor and Iron are not mutually comprehensible, as there are about 2,500 words in the Digor dialect that do not exist in the Iron dialect, and some North Ossetian scholars still consider Digor a separate language, as it was considered until 1937.[2] The phonetic, morphological, and lexical differences between the two dialects are greater than between Chechen and Ingush.[2]
In 2011 North Ossetia launched a Digor language version of the REGNUM News Agency and adopted two efforts to promote the study of the Digor for young students whose parents have forgotten the dialect in 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2015 respectively.[2] Additionally, at this time, the government of North Ossetia started offering textbooks in Digor.[2]
^Bernard Comrie, 1981. The Languages of the Soviet Union, p. 164.
^ abcdefFuller, Liz (28 May 2015). "One Nation, Two Polities, Two Endangered Ossetian Languages?". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
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southern group of Ossetians. Tual are in the central part of Ossetia. Ksan are in the east of South Ossetia. Digor people in the west. Digors live in Digora...
The Digor or Digor people (Ossetian: Дигорæ, Дигорæнттæ, romanized: Digoræ, Digorænttæ, pronounced [digɔːrɐ, digɔːrɐnttɐ]) are a subgroup of the Ossetians...
main dialects of the Ossetic language along with Digor spoken in the Caucasus. The majority of Ossetians speak Iron, notably in the East, South and Central...
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Ossetian mythology or Alan mythology (Ossetian: Ирон мифологи, Дигорон митологи, romanized: Iron mifologi, Digoron mitologi) is the collective term for...
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Алан Дигорский, romanized: Alan Digorskiy; Iron Ossetian: Дыгурты Алан, Dygurty Alan; DigorOssetian: Дигорти Алан, Digorti Alan), better known as Emir...
Ossetians speak Ossetian, an Eastern Iranian language, which has two major dialects: Digor and Iron. The written form of Ossetian is based on the Cyrillic...
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There is a version, that the word sulguni is etymologized as Ossetic (Digor dialect) сулугун (sulugun) adding Georgian nominative formant i, where sulu...
In ancient Ossetian, the seven days of the week were still named after the seven deities, and, in the conservative Digor dialect of Ossetian, Monday is...
of Boyalık and Karabacak speak the Iron dialect of Ossetian, while those of Poyrazlı speak Digor. The Alan Cultural and Aid Foundation (Alan Kültür ve...
Skuⁿxa might be related to the Ossetian term meaning "distinguishing oneself," and attested as skₒyxyn (скойхйн) in the Digor dialect, and as æsk’wænxun (ӕскъуӕнхун)...
Zazaki kiu 203,000 (2019) Persian pes 682,000 (2019) Non-indigenous DigorOssetian oss 41,000 (2019) 6b (Threatened) Non-indigenous Indo-Aryan Balkan Romani...
beginning of the 19th century, some Muslim Ossetian families from Digoria settled in Mozdok establishing a Muslim Digor community there which still exists today...
Alans, a name which survives as Digor and still refers to the western division of the Ossetians. Furthermore, in Ossetian, Asi refers to the region around...
North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. The inhabitants speak the archaic Digor dialect of Ossetian. Today the name most often refers to Irafsky and Digorsky districts...
Alania was a medieval kingdom of the Iranian Alans (Proto-Ossetians) that flourished between the 9th–13th centuries in the Northern Caucasus, roughly...
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