Ingush language
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| Ingush ГІалгІай Ğalğaj |
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| Spoken in: | Russia, Kazakhstan | |
| Region: | Ingushetia, Chechnya | |
| Total speakers: | ~400,000 | |
| Language family: | Caucasian (disputed) North (disputed) Northeast Veinakh (Chechen-Ingush) Ingush |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Ingushetia (federal subject of Russia) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | inh | |
| ISO 639-3: | inh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Ingush is a language spoken by approximately 415,000 people (2005), known as the Ingush, across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kazakhstan and Russia. In Ingush, the language is called ГІалгІай Ğalğaj (pronounced /ʁəl.ʁɑj/).
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[edit] Classification
Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family.
[edit] Geographic distribution
Ingush is spoken by about 415,000 people (2005), primarily across a region in the Caucasus covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kazakhstan and parts of Russia. Speakers can also be found in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Norway, Turkey and Jordan.
[edit] Official status
Ingush and Russian are the official languages of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia.
[edit] Writing system
Ingush became a written language with an Arabic-based writing system at the beginning of the 20th century. After the October revolution it first used a Latin alphabet which was later replaced by Cyrillic letters.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report for Ingush
- Ingush Language Project at UC Berkeley
- University of Graz - Language Server
- Online Ingush grammar and related material (Russian)
- Unofficial Ingush web-link (Russian)
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