[4] Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa but recognizes that it may be a separate language.

[5] Based on lexical similarity, Chirag is usually classified as a separate language from other varieties of Dargwa.

The plural suffix -e attracts stress and induces vowel deletion on the final syllable of disyllabic nouns (e.g., qisqan 'spider', qisqne 'spiders').

[4] Chirag is head-final, has fairly flexible word order and is rich with inflectional morphology.

In the plutal form, however, the male and female classes are identical, thus leading to a two-way human-nonhuman opposition.