Ingush language is a language spoken by approximately 230,315 people (1989) across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Russia. Jump to: navigation, search The Republic of Ingushetia (Ingush: ГIалгIай Мохк; Russian: ) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: субъект(ы); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ... SIL International is a non-profit, Christian, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Republic of Ingushetia (Ingush: ГIалгIай Мохк; Russian: ) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Chechen Republic (Chechen: Нохчийн Республика/Noxçiyn [Nokhchiyn] Respublika, Russian: Чеченская Республика), informal Chechnya (Chechen: Нохчичьо/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: Чечня), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. ...

Classification

Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh language branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. The Chechen language has about 1,200,000 speakers, most of whom live in Russia. ... Bats, or Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, is the language of a the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. ... The North Central Caucasian languages (also Nakh languages or Vaynakh languages) are a family of languages spoken mostly in Russia (Chechnya and Ingushetia) and Georgia. ... The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Caspian, or Dagestan, are a family of languages spoken mostly in Dagestan, Northern Azerbaijan and Georgia. ...

Geographic distribution

Ingush is spoken by 230,315 people (1989) across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Russia. Jump to: navigation, search The Republic of Ingushetia (Ingush: ГIалгIай Мохк; Russian: ) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Chechen Republic (Chechen: Нохчийн Республика/Noxçiyn [Nokhchiyn] Respublika, Russian: Чеченская Республика), informal Chechnya (Chechen: Нохчичьо/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: Чечня), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. ...

Official status

Ingush is the official language of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia. Jump to: navigation, search The Republic of Ingushetia (Ingush: ГIалгIай Мохк; Russian: ) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...

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. A written language is a language that uses a writing system to convey meaning, or more generally the written form of any language that has such written components. ... Jump to: navigation, search Arabic (Arabic: العربية; transliterated: al-carabiyyah, less formally, عربي transliterated: carabÄ«) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Jump to: navigation, search A writing system, also called a script, is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Jump to: navigation, search The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...

History

During Stalinist Russia Ingush-speakers were deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia. Much of their population and rights were lost in that time period. Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... Jump to: navigation, search Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ...

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)