Nakh
Sign in to saveAlso known as North Central Caucasian languages, North-Central Caucasian languages, Nakh language, North Central Caucasian, Chechen-Ingush languages, Nakh languages
family of languages
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Central Caucasus
- Ethnicity
- Nakh peoples
- Linguistic classification
- Northeast Caucasian Nakh
- Subdivisions
- Vainakh Bats
- Glottolog
- nakh1246
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Nakh languages are a group of languages within the Northeast Caucasian family, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus.
Bats is the endangered language of the Bats people, an ethnic minority in Georgia. The Chechen, Ingush and Bats peoples are also grouped under the ethno-linguistic umbrella of Nakh peoples.
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