| Ingush | ||
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| ГІалгІай мотт Ğalğaj mott /ʁəlʁɑj mot/ | ||
| Spoken in | ||
| Region | Ingushetia, Chechnya | |
| Total speakers | 413,000 (2002)[1] | |
| Language family | Northeast Caucasian
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | Ingushetia (federal subject of Russia) | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | none | |
| ISO 639-2 | inh | |
| ISO 639-3 | inh | |
| Linguasphere | ||
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ingush is a language spoken by about 413,000 people (2002)[1], known as the Ingush, across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kazakhstan and Russia. In Ingush, the language is called ГІалгІай Ğalğaj (pronounced [ʁəlʁɑj]).
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Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. They are not mutually intelligible, though there is pervasive passive bilingualism between Ingush and Chechen.
Ingush is spoken by about 413,000 people (2002)[1], primarily across a region in the Caucasus covering parts of Russia, primarily Ingushetia and Chechnya. Speakers can also be found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Norway, Turkey and Jordan.
Ingush is, alongside Russian, an official language 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.
| А а | Аь аь | Б б | В в | Г г | ГI гI | Д д | Е е |
| Ё ё | Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Кх кх | Къ къ |
| КI кI | Л л | М м | Н н | О о | П п | ПI пI | Р р |
| С с | Т т | ТI тI | У у | Ф ф | Х х | Хь хь | ХI хI |
| Ц ц | ЦI цI | Ч ч | ЧI чI | Ш ш | Щ щ | Ъ ъ | Ы ы |
| Ь ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я | Яь яь | I |
| Front | Central | Back | |
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| High | и [i] | у [u] | |
| Mid | э [e] | ? [ə] | о [o] |
| Low | аь [æ] | а [ɑː, ɑ] |
The diphthongs are иэ /ie/, уо /uo/, оа /oɑ/, ий /ij/, эи /ei/, ои /oi/, уи /ui/, ов /ow/, ув /uw/.
The consonants of Ingush are as follows[2]:
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Epiglottal | Glottal | ||||
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| central | lateral | palatalized | plain | ||||||||
| Nasal | м [m] | н [n] | |||||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | п [p] | т [t] | ? [kʲ] | к [k] | кх [q] | I [ʡ] | ъ [ʔ] | |||
| voiced | б [b] | д [d] | ? [ɡʲ] | г [ɡ] | |||||||
| ejective | пI [pʼ] | тI [tʼ] | ? [kʲʼ] | кI [kʼ] | къ [qʼ] | ||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ц [t͡s] | ч [t͡ʃ] | ||||||||
| ejective | цI [t͡sʼ] | чI [t͡ʃʼ] | |||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ф [f] | с [s] | ш [ʃ] | х [χ] | хь [ʜ] | хI [h] | ||||
| voiced | в [v]/[w] | з [z] | ж [ʒ] | гI [ʁ] | |||||||
| Approximant | л [l] | й [j] | |||||||||
| Trill | voiceless | рхI [r̥] | |||||||||
| voiced | р [r] | ||||||||||
Ingush is not divided into dialects with the exception of Galanchozh (native name: галанчIож), which is considered to be transitional between Chechen and Ingush. The Galanchozh language is considered by many to be a separate language, not a dialect.
Ingush is a nominative-accusative language in its syntax, though it has ergative morphology.[3] There are twelve noun cases: nominative, genitive, dative, ergative, instrumental, locative (subdivided into illative and elative), comparative, allative, locative 2, ablative, ablative 2, and translative.
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