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Digor (dialect)

Digorian is a dialect of the Ossetian language. The other is Iron, which is more widely spoken.The differences between the two are large enough to call them two languages—and that is done in some sources like the recently published Digor-Russian dictionary by Fedar Takazov Digorian (дигорон) is a...

: Ирæф, Iræf), is a river in North Ossetia-Alania

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 and Kabardino-Balkaria

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 (Russia

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), a left tributary of the Terek River. The length of the Urukh is 104 km, the area of its drainage basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 is 1280 km². The Urukh originates in the glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

s of the Greater Caucasus

Greater Caucasus

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. The river freezes up in December and remains icebound until March.