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Ingush (; Гӏалгӏай мотт, Ghalghai mott, pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 350,000 people, 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.
Classification
Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. There is pervasive passive bilingualism between Ingush and Chechen.
Geographic distribution
Ingush is spoken by about 350,000-400,000 people (2020) in Russia, primarily in the North Caucasian republics of Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Chechnya. Speakers can also be found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Norway, Turkey and Jordan.
= Official status
=Ingush is, alongside Russian, an official language of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia.
Writing system
It is possible that during the period of 8–12th century, when the Temples like Tkhaba-Yerdy emerged in Ingushetia, a writing system based on a Georgian script emerged. This is attested by the fact that a non-Georgian name, 'Enola', was found written on the arc of Tkhaba-Yerdy. Furthermore, Georgian text was found on archaeological items in Ingushetia that could not be deciphered.
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.
Phonology
= Vowels
=The diphthongs are иэ /ie/, уо /uo/, оа /oɑ/, ий /ij/, эи /ei/, ои /oi/, уи /ui/, ов /ow/, ув /uw/.
= Consonants
=The consonants of Ingush are as follows, including the Latin orthography developed by Johanna Nichols:
Single consonants can be geminated by various morphophonemic processes.
Dialects
Ingush is not divided into dialects with the exception of Galanchoz (native name: Галай-Чӏож/Галайн-Чӏаж), which is considered to be transitional between Chechen and Ingush.
Grammar
Ingush is a nominative–accusative language in its syntax, though it has ergative morphology.
= Case
=The most recent and in-depth analysis of the language shows eight cases: absolutive, ergative, genitive, dative, allative, instrumental, lative and comparative.
= Tenses
== Numerals
=Like many Northeast Caucasian languages, Ingush uses a vigesimal system, where numbers lower than twenty are counted as in a base-ten system, but higher decads are base-twenty.
Note that "four" and its derivatives begin with noun-class marker. d- is merely the default value.
= Pronouns
== Word order
=In Ingush, "for main clauses, other than episode-initial and other all-new ones, verb-second order is most common. The verb, or the finite part of a compound verb or analytic tense form (i.e. the light verb or the auxiliary), follows the first word or phrase in the clause".
References
Bibliography
= English sources
== Russian sources
=External links
Appendix:Cyrillic script
Indigenous Language of the Caucasus (Ingush)
Ingush Language Project at UC Berkeley
University of Graz report Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
Russian-Ghalghaj (Ingush) vocabulary
Ingush 100-word Swadesh list at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
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- Georgia
- Daftar bahasa menurut ISO 639-2
- Tanda Lembut (Kiril)
- Ingush language
- Ingush people
- Ingush
- Nakh languages
- Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
- East Prigorodny conflict
- Chechnya and Ingushetia in the Soviet Union
- Ingush Independence Committee
- INH
- Nakh peoples
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