Ingush people

Ingush
ГIалгIай
Ghalghai
Total population
c. 700,000[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
 Russia517,186 (2021)[3]
    Ingushetia473,440 (2021)
    Chechnya1,100 (2021)
    North Ossetia-Alania24,285 (2021)
 Turkey85,000 (2019)[1][2]
 Kazakhstan18,000 (2016)[4]
 France3,000 (2019)[5]
 Uzbekistan800 (2016)[6]
 Kyrgyzstan568 (1999)[7]
 Ukraine455 (2001)[8]
 Belarus88 (2009)[9]
 Latvia33 (2023)[10]
Languages
Ingush
Religion
Sunni Islam (Shafi'i Madhhab)
Related ethnic groups
Other Nakh peoples (Chechens, Bats, Kists)

Ingush[a] (Ingush: Гӏалгӏай, romanized: Ghalghai,[16] pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj]), historically known as Durdzuks, Gligvi and Kists, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group mainly inhabiting Ingushetia in central Caucasus, but also inhabitanting Prigorodny District and town of Vladikavkaz of modern day North-Ossetia. The Ingush are predominantly Sunni Muslims and speak the Ingush language.[17]

  1. ^ a b Степанова 2018.
  2. ^ a b Севрюкова 2019, p. 6.
  3. ^ "Russian Census of 2021" (in Russian). 2021.
  4. ^ Ingush in Kazakhstan. Joshua Project.
  5. ^ Севрюкова 2019, p. 37.
  6. ^ Country: Uzbekistan. Joshua Project.
  7. ^ Хауг 2005.
  8. ^ Государственная служба статистики Украины (2001). "Всеукраинская перепись населения 2001 года. Распределение населения по национальности и родному языку" [All-Ukrainian population census of 2001. Distribution of the population by nationality and mother tongue] (in Russian).
  9. ^ Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь (2009). "Перепись населения Республики Беларусь 2009 года. Население по национальности и родному языку" [Population census of the Republic of Belarus in 2009. Population by nationality and mother tongue] (PDF) (in Russian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-03.
  10. ^ "Распределение населения Латвии по национальному составу на 01.01.2023" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  11. ^ Merriam-Webster.
  12. ^ a b Collins English Dictionary.
  13. ^ a b Dictionary.com.
  14. ^ a b OED 1976.
  15. ^ The Columbia Gazetteer of the World 2008, p. 1680.
  16. ^ Nichols & Sprouse 2004, p. 225.
  17. ^ Nichols, J.; Vagapov, A.D. (2004). Chechen-English and English-Chechen Dictionary. RoutledgeCurzon. p. 4. ISBN 0-415-31594-8.


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