DarLing

DarLing is a lexical database containing the lexicona of several Dargwa languages and dialects. The search in the database is possible by different types of queriesː by a Dargwa word, by Russian or English translation in one or several languages. Synonyms, cognates (words of the same origin) and words containing certain morphemes are also available.

Word forms of Dargwa are presented in Cyrillic alphabet (based on the orthography of Literary dargwa) and in transcription. Lexicon entries contain grammatical information (different forms of words, case frames of verbs, nominal gender, etc.). For all words, the database provides information about the source of the data.

The first version of the lexical database was created in 2018. In 2022, the database was reorganized. Currently, the database contains more than 2000 comparative series, including more than 300 verb roots. The data in the database come from two principal sources: published dictionaries and grammars (including online resources) and field materials collected by the authors and their colleagues. In the database, all data are presented in a standard format, with words from different languages and dialects organized into comparative series.

Currently, the database contains lexicons of the following languages and dialects: Aqusha, Itsari, Kadar, Mehweb Muira, Qunqi and Tanti. The database is gradually being enriched with new data. In particular, we are preparing lexicons of Urakhi and Kubachi, as well as data from the "Dialectological Dictionary of Dargwa" by S. M. Temirbulatova (2022).

Out team:
Nina Sumbatova (development of the draft database, lexicon entries; compilation of comparative series; data collection and presentation)
Ellie Sokur (programming of the current version of the base)
Victoria Pozdnyakova (development of the lexicon entries for verbs; programming of the first version of the database)

Data on individual lects:
Aqusha: lexicon from (van den Berg 2001); the data was prepared by Alexander Tokmakov.
Kadar: lexicon collected by Naida Vagizieva; partially the data in (Vagizieva 2018).
Qunqi: a preliminary version of the lexicon was collected in 2007 by Dmitry Ganenkov, Natalya Serdobolskaya, Nina Sumbatova, and Victoria Khurshudyan. In 2022–2024, Nina Sumbatova and Patimat Kazimova checked and supplemented the dictionary.
Itsari: lexicon from (Sumbatova, Mutalov 2003) and the dictionary collected by Rasul Mutalov (unpublished); data for the database were prepared by Ivan Kalyakin and Nina Sumbatova.
Mehweb: data collected in the field trips of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Musaev, Morozova, Daniel 2020).
Muira: field data collected in 2018–2021 in the field trips of the Russian State University for the Himanities; data for the database were prepared and supplemented by Ivan Kalyakin and Nina Sumbatova.
Tanti: data from the lexicon in the book (Sumbatova, Lander 2014).