Ancient Dargin migrations and the formation of Dargin languages and dialects

The author studied the issues of the ancestral homeland of the Dargwa people and the appearance of the Dargwa languages that have never been studied before. In the period of globalization, the small Dargwa languages are threatened to disapper, and the issue of the fastest possible collection and description of linguistic material is acute. Meanwhile, there is no studies of the comparative historicalgrammar of the Dargwa languages, which would shed light on the problem of the formation of the Dargwa languages and dialects. The aim of the study is to trace the main migration routes of the ancient Dargwa people and on the basis of linguistic data, to explain the formation of certain languages and dialects. The main method of research is comparative. Fieldresearch methods are also used to collect and describe linguistic material. It’s the first study in the history of Dargwa language reseach which puts forward a hypothesis about the ancestral homeland of the Dargwa people. It is revealed that ancestral homeland was located in the headwaters of the Ulluchayriver. One of the first migrations was the resettlement of a part of the Dargwa people to the Northeast; where they settled in the vicinity of the village of Mekegi in the Levashinsky District. There was one more early migration of the Dargwa people to the South and the East, where the Protosouthdargwa language subsequently split into the Chirag, Kubachi, Kaytag, and Sirkhya idioms. The migration of part of the Dargwa people to the South was the reason of the Chirag settlement formation, while Kubachi and Kaytag settlements arose in the Eastern part. The Sirkhya auls were formed to the Northeast of their historical ancestral homeland, and part of the Sirkhya people migrated to the North, where the migrants formed the Tsudakhar.

the Caucasian languages, the Nakh-Dagestanian languages, the Dargwa languages, dialects, migrations, phonetics, morphology, linguistic changes, archaisms, innovations