Ghalghai

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Ghalghai is the self-designation of the Ingush people, a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native to the North Caucasus region of Russia.

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Label Occurrences
Ghalghai canonical 2

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Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian people
ethnic group
country Russia
culturallyRelatedTo Chechens
surface form: Chechen people
ethnicReligionHistorically Indigenous Vainakh beliefs
ethnographicRegion North Caucasus
ethnonymLanguage Ingush
surface form: Ingush language
hasAutonym Ghalghai self-link
hasEthnonymMeaning often interpreted as "people of the towers" or "people of the sun" (various etymologies)
hasExonym Ingush
Ingush people
historicalRegion Ingushetia NERFINISHED
language Ingush
surface form: Ingush language
languageFamily Nakh branch of Northeast Caucasian languages
linguisticGroup Nakh peoples
locatedIn North Caucasus
surface form: North Caucasus region of Russia

Republic of Ingushetia NERFINISHED
modernReligionMajority Islam
nativeTo North Caucasus
Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
partOf Peoples of the Caucasus
regionType mountainous and foothill areas of the North Caucasus
relatedEthnicGroup Chechens
religionBranch Sunni Islam
selfDesignationOf Ingush people
subgroupOf Vainakh
surface form: Vainakh peoples
traditionalReligion Sunni Islam
traditionalTerritory North Caucasus
surface form: Central North Caucasus
usesScript Cyrillic script (for Ingush language)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ingush ethnonym Ghalghai
Ghalghai hasAutonym Ghalghai self-link