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 (/ˈɪŋɡʊʃ/; Гӏалгӏай мотт, Ghalghai mott, pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 500,000 people, known as the Ingush, across a region covering the Russian republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya.