Dargins

Dargins is a Dargwa language, it is endemic to the region and spoken mainly in Western Dagestan with two dialects Dargwa and Lakh. The language has two dialects, and its people are Sunni-Muslims. Dargwa peoples use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabets to write their language, which is one of the official languages of Dagestan.

As per the 2002 census, there are 429,347 Dargins speakers in Dagestan, 7,188 in neighbouring Kalmykia, 1,620 in Khantia-Mansia, 680 in Chechnya and hundreds more in other parts of Russia. Top figures for Lakh speakers are 142,523 in Dagestan, 1,504 in Kabardino-Balkaria, 708 in Khantia-Mansia, etc.