Nakh

Information about Nakh

The Nakh languages are a small family of languages spoken mostly in Russia (Chechnya and Ingushetia) and Georgia. The Chechen diaspora is spread all over the Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.

The Nakh languages were historically classified as an independent North-Central Caucasian family, but are now recognized as a branch of the Northeast Caucasian family.

Classification

  • Bats or Batsbi — approximately 3,420, spoken mostly in Zemo-Alvani, Georgia. Not mutually intelligible with Chechen or Ingush.
  • Vainakh languages, a dialect continuum with two literary languages:
  • Chechen — approximately 950,000 speakers.
  • Ingush — approximately 230,000 speakers.
Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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Чеченская Республик?
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Республика Ингушети?
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Motto
ძალა ერთობაშია   (Georgian)
"Strength is in Unity"
Anthem
"Tavisupleba"
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The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population who are forced or induced to leave their traditional homelands, the dispersal of such people,
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Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form of 'Muslim' is Muslimah (Arabic: مسلمة).
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Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition.
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Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.
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The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Caspian, Nakh-Dagestanian, or Dagestanian, are a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, in northern Azerbaijan, and in Georgia, as well as
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Bats (also Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Tsova-Tush) is the language of the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975.
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Motto
ძალა ერთობაშია   (Georgian)
"Strength is in Unity"
Anthem
"Tavisupleba"
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A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area, differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close, and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater.
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The Chechen language (Нохчийн мотт / Noxçiyn mott) (Medieval Chechen: نوًچین موت) is spoken by more than 1.
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Ingush is a language spoken by approximately 415,000 people (2005), known as the Ingush, across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kazakhstan and Russia. In Ingush, the language is called ГІалгІай Ğalğaj
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