Ingush language

Ingush (/ˈɪŋɡʊʃ/; Гӏалгӏай мотт, Ghalghai mott, pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 500,000 people, known as the Ingush, across a region covering the Russian republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

Ingush

[ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]

350,000 (2020)^[1]

Nakh
- Vainakh
  - Chechen–Ingush
    - Ingush

Cyrillic (current)
Georgian, Arabic, Latin (historical)

Russia

Ingushetia

inh

ingu1240

Classification[edit]

Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. There is pervasive passive bilingualism between Ingush and Chechen.^[3]

Dialects[edit]

Ingush is not divided into dialects with the exception of Galanchoz (native name: Галай-Чӏож/Галайн-Чӏаж), which is considered to be transitional between Chechen and Ingush.^[8]

Appendix:Cyrillic script

Indigenous Language of the Caucasus (Ingush)

Ingush Language Project at UC Berkeley

Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine

Ingush language

Ingush

Pronunciation

Native to

Region

Ethnicity

Native speakers

Language family

Writing system

Official language in

ISO 639-2

ISO 639-3

Glottolog

Classification[edit]

Dialects[edit]

Appendix:Cyrillic script

Indigenous Language of the Caucasus (Ingush)

Ingush Language Project at UC Berkeley

University of Graz report

Russian-Ghalghaj (Ingush) vocabulary

Ingush 100-word Swadesh list at the Global Lexicostatistical Database