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Khwarshi (also spelled Xvarshi Khvarshi) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the Tsumadinsky- Kizilyurtovsky- and Khasavyurtovsky districts of Dagestan by the Khwarshi people. The exact number of speakers is not known but the linguist Zaira Khalilova who has carried out fieldwork in the period from 2005 to 2009 gives the figure 8500. Other sources give much lower figures such as Ethnologue with the figure 1870 and the latest population census of Russia with the figure 1872.