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Ingush ГIалгIай Ghalghai
Total population
c. 700,000[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Russia
517,186 (2021)[3]
Ingushetia
473,440 (2021)
Chechnya
1,100 (2021)
North Ossetia-Alania
24,285 (2021)
Turkey
85,000 (2019)[1][2]
Kazakhstan
18,000 (2016)[4]
France
3,000 (2019)[5]
Uzbekistan
800 (2016)[6]
Kyrgyzstan
568 (1999)[7]
Ukraine
455 (2001)[8]
Belarus
88 (2009)[9]
Latvia
33 (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]
^ abСтепанова 2018.
^ abСеврюкова 2019, p. 6.
^"Russian Census of 2021" (in Russian). 2021.
^Ingush in Kazakhstan. Joshua Project.
^Севрюкова 2019, p. 37.
^Country: Uzbekistan. Joshua Project.
^Хауг 2005.
^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).
^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.
^"Распределение населения Латвии по национальному составу на 01.01.2023" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
^Merriam-Webster.
^ abCollins English Dictionary.
^ abDictionary.com.
^ abOED 1976.
^The Columbia Gazetteer of the World 2008, p. 1680.
^Nichols & Sprouse 2004, p. 225.
^Nichols, J.; Vagapov, A.D. (2004). Chechen-English and English-Chechen Dictionary. RoutledgeCurzon. p. 4. ISBN 0-415-31594-8.
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