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Ingush

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Also known as Ingush language

language spoken by the Ingush people

AI overview

Ingush is a language spoken by the Ingush people, an ethnic group primarily located in the North Caucasus region. It belongs to the Caucasian language family and represents an important part of Ingush cultural identity and heritage.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Vainakh
Country
Russia
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indigenous to
Chechnya
has grammatical case
comparative case
topic's main category
Category:Ingush language
writing system
Cyrillic script
number of speakers, writers, or signers
322900
Wikimedia language code
inh
native label
гӏалгӏай мотт‎
Commons category
Ingush language
short name
мæхъхъæлон
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Encyclopedic overview

Ingush (/ˈɪŋɡʊʃ/; гӏалгӏай мотт, ġalġay mott, IPA: [ˈɣəɫɣəɪ mʷɔtː]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 350,000 people, known as the Ingush, across a region covering the Russian republics of Ingushetia, Chechnya, North Ossetia, as well as the countries of Turkey, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and others.

Classification

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ingush” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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