This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Chirag corpus (Ganenkov & Schiborr 2025), originally published in July 2025 with version 2507 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.

Chirag [chir1284] is a Nakh-Daghestanian (Caucasian) language from the Dargwa subbranch spoken in and around the village of Chirag and the city of Kaspiysk in the Caucasus Mountains in the Republic of Daghestan, Russia. The number of speakers is about 2000 (Ganenkov 2022).

The text were recorded, transcribed, translated, and glossed by Dimitry Ganenkov between 2012 and 2017 and subsequently annotated with GRAID and RefIND for Multi-CAST by Nils Schiborr. The eleven texts in this corpus are a mixture of traditional narratives and personal stories.

Citation
Ganenkov, Dmitry & Schiborr, Nils N. 2025. Multi-CAST Chirag. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Ganenkov, Dmitry. 2022. Person agreement with inherent case DPs in Chirag Dargwa. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40. 741–791. (DOI: 10.1007/s11049-021-09520-3)
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.