Keywords: Ossetian dialectology, Digor Variant of Ossetian, resettlement patois, enclave patois

The article defines the main approaches to characteristic and classification of resettlement patois which are in fact a unique object for studying the processes of inter-language and inter-dialects contacting. An analysis of the extra-linguistic and strictly linguistic factors of origination of the Digor patois of the posterior land settlement, which have an enclave character, is done.