Digor Ossetian

Digor
Digor
Дигорон ӕвзаг, Digoron ӕvzag
Pronunciation	[digɔːrɔːn ɐvzɑːg]
Native to	North Caucasus
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 (

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 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

textbooks in Digor.^[2]