Ingush

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Ingush are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group indigenous to the North Caucasus region of Russia, closely related culturally and linguistically to the Chechens.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Ingush language 4
Ingush language is vulnerable 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian people
ethnic group
architecture clan tower complexes
stone defensive towers
autonomousRepublic Republic of Ingushetia NERFINISHED
capitalCity Magas
closelyRelatedTo Chechens NERFINISHED
continent Asia
Europe
country Russia
demographicStatus titular ethnic group of Ingushetia
ethnicGroupIn Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
ethnonym Ghalghai
exonym Ingush self-link
federalSubjectOfResidence Chechen Republic NERFINISHED
North Ossetia–Alania NERFINISHED
Republic of Ingushetia NERFINISHED
formerWritingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
historicalCenter Assa River valley
Sunzha River
surface form: Sunzha River valley
indigenousTo North Caucasus
language Ingush self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ingush language
languageFamily Nakh languages
Northeast Caucasian languages
nativeName ГӀалгӀай
politicalStatus minority in Russia
primaryRegion Chechnya NERFINISHED
Ingushetia NERFINISHED
North Ossetia–Alania NERFINISHED
region Caucasus
relatedEthnicGroup Bats people
Chechens NERFINISHED
religion Sunni Islam
religiousTradition Hanafi school
Sufism
socialStructure teip (clan) system
subregion North Caucasus
sufiOrder Naqshbandi
surface form: Naqshbandi order

Qadiriyya Sufi tradition
surface form: Qadiri order
traditionalEconomy agriculture
pastoralism
tower-building culture
traditionalReligion pre-Islamic pagan beliefs
traditionalTerritory Greater Caucasus
surface form: Ingushetia highlands

Terek River
surface form: Terek River basin
UNESCOLanguageStatus Ingush self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ingush language is vulnerable
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Ingush UNESCOLanguageStatus Ingush self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ingush language is vulnerable
this entity surface form: Ingush language
North Ossetia ethnicGroup Ingush
Kists ethnicRelation Ingush
Ingush exonym Ingush self-link
Nart sagas hasLanguage Ingush
this entity surface form: Ingush language
this entity surface form: Ingush language
Ingush language Ingush self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ingush language
Kists relatedEthnicGroup Ingush
Kists sharesCustomsWith Ingush