Ingush language

Spoken in

• Northeast Caucasian languages Nachische languages Wainachische languages Ingush

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Inh

The Ingush language (self- designation: ГIалгIай мотт / Ğalğaj mott [ ʁalʁaj mott ] ) is spoken by nearly 240,000 people, mainly in the autonomous republic of Ingushetia (Russian Federation). It is closely related to the Chechen, so that the speakers of both languages ​​can understand each other to some extent. Both languages ​​form the subgroup of weinachischen languages ​​within the nachischen language group. The language is written with the Cyrillic alphabet in 1938.

Linguistic characteristics

The Ingush is characterized by a large number of vowels and consonants. Among the consonants there are in addition ejective uvular and also Pharyngale.

It is a Ergativsprache with a total of 8 case, also the language provides a system of six noun classes.

At the verb, the grammatical categories tense, aspect, mood, number, and class are marked, but not a person.

Vocabulary

In Ingush vocabulary, there are many borrowings from Russian, but also from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish, inter alia,

Text sample

ЮСТАРА ЛАТТА БОКЪО ЯЦ ( наьна мотт дегIабоалабира наькъех )

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Тахан, вайна ма харра, гIалгIай школашка дешар хьехалга эрсий меттала оттадаь, дIахьош да. ГIалгIай меттала алхха ГIалгIай мотти, литературеи, дына бовхамаши мара хьехац. Таханарча гIалгIай халкъа а метта а хьалага, цар хьашташка диллача из нийса да, кхоачам болаш да. Вай кхетаде деза гIалгIай алфавит эрсий графика ларда тIа хилар дешархошта дикка аьттув луш долга. [ ... ]