Ingush | |
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Гӏалгӏай мотт Ghalghai mott | |
Pronunciation | [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Ingushetia, Chechnya |
Ethnicity | Ingush |
Native speakers | 350,000 (2020)[1] |
Cyrillic (current) Georgian, Arabic, Latin (historical) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Russia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | inh |
ISO 639-3 | inh |
Glottolog | ingu1240 |
Ingush | |
Ingush is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] | |
Ingush (/ˈɪŋɡʊʃ/; Гӏалгӏай мотт, Ghalghai mott, pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 350,000 people,[1] known as the Ingush, across a region covering the Russian republics of Ingushetia, Chechnya, North Ossetia, as well as the countries Turkey, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, et al.[3]