Ingush people

Ingush
ГIалгIай (Ghalghay)

(left to right): Ruslan Aushev, Murat Zyazikov,
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Magomed-Said Pliyev
Total population
~476,000
Regions with significant populations
 Russia 444,833[1]
    Ingushetia 385,537
    Chechnya 1,296
    North Ossetia-Alania 28,336
 Kazakhstan 16,893
 Belgium 8,000[2]
 Norway 3,000[3]
 Iraq 2,000
 Ukraine 455
Languages
Ingush
Religion
Predominantly Shafii school of Islam, minority others
Related ethnic groups
Chechens, Bats, Kists

The Ingush (Ingush: ГIалгIай, Ghalghai, pronounced [ˈʁalʁaɪ]) are a Caucasian native ethnic group of the North Caucasus, mostly inhabiting the Russian republic of Ingushetia. The Ingush are predominantly Sunni Muslims and speak the Ingush language. Despite popular misconceptions, Ingush is not mutually intelligible with Chechen, though they are closely related.[4] The Ingush and Chechen peoples are collectively known as the Vainakh.[5]

History

Main article: Ingushetia

Caucas is the legendary ancestor of all modern Nakh peoples (although the origin of the Batsbi is still disputed), including the Ingush and Chechens, who are closely related linguistically and genetically. The Georgian name is Glivi / Gligvi.. Ancient author (Strabo) spoke about the Gargars, American cartographer J.H.Colton labeled the people as Gelians.

The Ingush came under Russian rule in 1810, but during World War II they were falsely accused of collaborating with the Nazis and the entire population was deported to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. They were rehabilitated in the 1950s, after the death of Joseph Stalin, and allowed to return home in 1957, though by that time western Ingush lands had been ceded to North Ossetia.

Culture

The Ingush possess a varied culture of traditions, legends, epics, tales, songs, proverbs, and sayings. Music, songs and dance are particularly highly regarded. Popular musical instruments include the dachick-panderr (a kind of balalaika), kekhat ponder (accordion, generally played by girls), mirz ponder (a three-stringed violin), zurna (a type of oboe), tambourine, and drums.

Religion

The Ingush are predominantly Shāfi‘ī Madh'hab of Sunni Islam, although a Sufi minority exists.[6]

Ingush genetics

"The Caucasus populations exhibit, on average, less variability than other populations for the eight Alu insertion poly-morphisms analysed here. The average heterozygosity is less than that for any other region of the world, with the exception of Sahul. Within the Caucasus, Ingushians have much lower levels of variability than any of the other populations. The Ingushians also showed unusual patterns of mtDNA variation when compared with other Caucasus populations (Nasidze and Stoneking, submitted), which indicates that some feature of the Ingushian population history, or of this particular sample of Ingushians, must be responsible for their different patterns of genetic variation at both mtDNA and the Alu insertion loci."[7][8]

According to one test by Nasidze in 2003 (analyzed further in 2004), the Y-chromosome structure of the Ingush greatly resembled that of neighboring Caucasian populations (especially Chechens, their linguistic and cultural brethren).[9][10]

There has been only one notable study on the Ingush Y chromosome. These following statistics should not be regarded as final, as Nasidze's test had a notably low sample data for the Ingush. However, they do give an idea of the main haplogroups of the Ingush.

In the mtDNA, the Ingush formed a more clearly distinct population, with distance from other populations. The closest in an analysis by Nasidze were Chechens, Kabardins and Adyghe (Circassians), but these were all much closer to other populations than they were to the Ingush.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity". Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  2. ↑ "Ждут ли Юнус-Бека Евкурова в Европе и коротко об организаторах встречи в Бельгии". Habar.Org. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  3. ↑ "ЧЕЧЕĐ?Đśđť и Đ˜Đ?Đ"Đłđ¨Đ˜! Đ&#X;Đžń‡Đľđźńƒ вы но выхОđ´Đ¸Ń‚Đľ на Ńƒđťđ¸Ń†Ń‹ Đ?Đžń€Đ˛Đľđłđ¸Đ¸?". Diaspora.no. 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  4. ↑ Nichols, J. and Vagapov, A. D. (2004). Chechen-English and English-Chechen Dictionary, p. 4. RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-415-31594-8.
  5. ↑ Arutiunov, Sergei. (1996). "Ethnicity and Conflict in the Caucasus". Slavic Research Center
  6. ↑ Stefano Allievi and Jørgen S. Nielsen (2003). Muslim networks and transnational communities in and across Europe 1.
  7. ↑ Ivane Nasidze et al. (2001). "Alu insertion polymorphisms and the genetic structure of human populations from the Caucasus". European Journal of Human Genetics 9 (4): 267–272. doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200615. PMID 11313770.
  8. ↑ "Alu insertion polymorphisms and the genetic structure of human populations from the Caucasus" (PDF).
  9. ↑ Nasidze I, Sarkisian T, Kerimov A, Stoneking M (March 2003). "Testing hypotheses of language replacement in the Caucasus: evidence from the Y-chromosome" (PDF). Human Genetics 112 (3): 255–61. doi:10.1007/s00439-002-0874-4. PMID 12596050.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 I. Nasidze, E. Y. S. Ling, D. Quinque et al., "Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variation in the Caucasus", Annals of Human Genetics (2004) 68, 205–221. http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/pdf/Caucasus_big_paper.pdf
  11. ↑ Oleg Balanovsky, Khadizhat Dibirova, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak, Svetlana Frolova, Elvira Pocheshkhova, Marc Haber, Daniel Platt, Theodore Schurr, Wolfgang Haak, Marina Kuznetsova, Magomed Radzhabov, Olga Balaganskaya, Alexey Romanov, Tatiana Zakharova, David F. Soria Hernanz, Pierre Zalloua, Sergey Koshel, Merritt Ruhlen, Colin Renfrew, R. Spencer Wells, Chris Tyler-Smith, Elena Balanovska, and The Genographic Consortium Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region Mol. Biol. Evol. 2011 : msr126v1-msr126.

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