Digor Ossetian

For district in Kars Province of Turkey, see Digor, Kars.

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)
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	–
Glottolog	digo1242

Digor Ossetian (/ˈdɪɡər/; Template:Lang-os pronounced [digɔːrɔːn ɐvzɑːg]) 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