Nakh-Daghestanian · ISO 639-3 inh
Ingush Language ГӀалгӀай
Ingush is a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken by about 322,900 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Ingush is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Ingush language
Ingush (ГӀалгӀай) is spoken by about 322,900 people, which makes it the 509th most spoken language in the world — just behind Icelandic (350,000) and ahead of Ngazidja Comorian (312,000). It belongs to the Nakh-Daghestanian language family and, more precisely, to the Chechen-Ingush group within the Chechen-Ingush branch.
Where is Ingush spoken?
Ingush is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (352,052).
Ingush is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Ingush is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Chechen.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 inh.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.