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Aghul (Aghulan; native Аґул чӀал) is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Lezgic branch, spoken by around 30,000 people in the Agulsky and Kurakhsky districts of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Linguistically, Aghul is closely related to Lezgian (lez) and Tabasaran (tab), exhibiting the typical Northeast Caucasian features of large consonant inventories (with ejectives and uvulars), agglutinative morphology, ergative alignment, and complex case systems (~14 case forms). Aghul has four distinct dialect zones (Agul Proper, Koshan, Kerenkhyu, Tpig), with the Tpig variety being the most widely-spoken and the basis of the modern literary standard. The language received a Cyrillic literary norm in 1990 as part of post-Soviet Dagestan literacy programs.