Kadar dialect

The Kadar dialect (G'adaran lug'at / Гъадаран лугъат) with 18,000 speakers, is a dialect of the Northern Dargin languages, one of the Dargin languages, which is characterized by specific phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features. It is traditionally regarded as a single dialect of Dargwa. The vocabulary layer of the Kadar dialect includes words borrowed from Arabic, Persian, Russian and especially Turkic, due to contact with Kumyk.

Phonology
Kadar has 39 consonants and 5 vowels. Gemination does not occur, as in other Dargin languages, but there are labialized consonants, being and.