Alternate Names: Galancho, Nokchiin Muott, Nokhchiin
Dialects: Akkin (Aux), Cheberloi, Itumkala (Shatoi), Kistin, Melkhin, Ploskost. Chechen partially intelligible with Ingush ,. Melkhi transitional dialect to Ingush.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,350,000 in Russian Federation (2010 census). Population total all countries: 1,361,000. 233,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 1,430,000 (2010 census).
Language Use: Largest Nakh-Daghestanian language. Used in publishing. Also use Russian [rus].
Language Development: Taught in primary schools. Newspapers. New media. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 2012.
Typology: Ergative case system; many consonants and vowels; extensive inflectional morphology, many nominal cases, several gender classes; complex sentences by chaining participial clauses; verbs have gender agreement with the direct object or intransitive subject, but no person agreement (Nichols 1995).
Writing System: Cyrillic
Nation of Origin: Russian Federation
Other Comments: Many Russians, Ingush, Ossetins, and other peoples live among them. From 1944–1957, they were deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia losing 25%–50% of the population, much land, economic resources, and civil rights. They have been largely removed from productive lowlands. Muslim (Sunni), Muslim (Sufi).