Ingush language

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Ingush
ГІалгІай Ğalğaj
Spoken in: Russia, Kazakhstan 
Region: Ingushetia, Chechnya
Total speakers: ~400,000
Language family: Caucasian (disputed)
 North (disputed)
  Northeast
   Veinakh (Chechen-Ingush)
    Ingush 
Official status
Official language of: Ingushetia (federal subject of Russia)
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
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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Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family.

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.

Ingush and Russian are the official languages of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia.

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.


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