Northeast Caucasian family
Ingush
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Ingush (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Northeast Caucasian language. Lineage: Proto-Northeast Caucasian → Proto-Nakh → Ingush.
See Ingush on the interactive map- Speakers
- 500K (500,000)
- ISO 639-3
- inh
- Glottocode
- ingu1240
Closely related to and partly mutually intelligible with Chechen. Start date is nominal.
Lineage
- Proto-Northeast Caucasianc. 4,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
- Proto-Nakhc. 1,000 BCE – 500 CE
- Ingushc. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Proto-Nakh.