Along with the Aqusha dialect [ru], it formed the basis for the literary Dargwa language.

Urakhi does not have vowel length or consonant gemination, in contrast with other varieties.

The system of phonemic fortis and lenis has been lost, in accordance with the related Aqusha dialect, replaced by the corresponding voiced consonants.

[3] Urakhi was one of the bases for the literary Dargwa language, along with Aqusha.

Peter von Uslar created an orthography for Urakhi in 1892 in his grammar.