Ingush language
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Ingush is a language spoken by approximately 415,000 people (2005), known as the Ingush, across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Russia. In Ingush, the language is called ГІалгІай Ğalğaj (pronounced Template:IPA).
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Classification
Ingush and Chechen, together with Batsbi, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family.
Geographic distribution
Ingush is spoken by about 415,000 people (2005), primarily across a region in the Caucasus covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and parts of Russia. Speakers can also be found in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Norway, Turkey and Jordan.
Official status
Ingush and Russian are the official languages of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia.
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.
External links
- Ethnologue report for Ingush
- Ingush Language Project at UC Berkeley
- University of Graz - Language Server
- Online Ingush grammar and related material (in Russian)
- Unofficial Ingush web-link (in Russian)
eo:Inguŝa lingvo ko:인구시어 he:אינגושית ja:イングーシ語 fi:Inguušin kieli zh:印古什語