Digor Ossetian

Short description: Western dialect of 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]

Language family

Indo-European

* Indo-Iranian
* Iranian
* Eastern
* Ossetian
* Digor

Writing system

| Cyrillic (current)
Arabic, Latin (historical)
Official status

Official language in

|  Russia

* Template:Country data North Ossetia

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

1. ↑ Bernard Comrie, 1981. The Languages of the Soviet Union, p. 164.
2. ↑ 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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