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The Dargins used the Arabic alphabet for centuries before the adoption of Latin.
The Arabic alphabet for Dargwa, before it was replaced by Latin in 1928, looked like this:
آ
ا
ا۠
ب
پ
ت
ر
ز
ڗ
ژ
د
ح
ج
خ
ڃ
چ
څ
س
ش
ڝ
ڞ
ع
غ
ڠ
ف
ڣ
ق
و
وٓ
ه
ﻫ
ل
ى
ن
ک
ࢰ
گ
ݤ
ط
م
Uslar's Cyrillic
Uslar's 1892 alphabet
In 1892, Peter von Uslar published his grammar on the Urakhi dialect (or Khyurkili), which included an alphabet for it in Cyrillic. It is displayed below.[3]
The Arabic alphabet was adapted as the Dargin phonetics alphabet in 1920, but it was poorly adapted to the sounds of the Dargin language. So in 1928, as part of the All-Union project on Romanization, the Latin-based alphabet was adopted for Dargin. In the same year, the first primer in this alphabet was published (cupanov r. Nuşala ʐaꝗ-sawet. Mәħәc-qala, 1928). Initially the Dargin Romanized alphabet had no capital letters.
a
b
c
ꞓ
ç
d
e
ә
f
g
ǥ
ƣ
h
ⱨ
ħ
i
j
k
ⱪ
l
m
n
o
p
q
ꝗ
r
s
ş
t
t̨
u
v
x
z
ⱬ
ƶ
ⱬ̵
’
After the reform of 1932, capital letters were introduced, some Latin letters were excluded and the alphabet took the form shown in the table below:
A a
B b
C c
Ç ç
D d
E e
Ә ә
F f
G g
Ƣ ƣ
H h
Ⱨ ⱨ
Ħ ħ
I i
J j
K k
Ⱪ ⱪ
L l
M m
N n
O o
P p
Q q
Ꝗ ꝗ
R r
S s
Ş ş
T t
T̨ t̨
U u
V v
X x
Ҳ ҳ
Ӿ ӿ
Z z
Ⱬ ⱬ
Ƶ ƶ
Ⱬ̵ ⱬ̵
Ӡ ӡ
Modern alphabet
The Cyrillic alphabet was adopted in 1938. In the 1960s, the letter ПI, пI was added.
