User:Qfeng1/Language selection

Chechen Language

Morphological typology

Chechen is an agglutinative language with an ergative–absolutive morphosyntactic alignment. [1]

Basic Information

• ISO: che
• Population: 1,350,000 (2010 census). 233,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 1,430,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 1,503,680.
• Location: Chechnya republic, Dagestan republic, and Ingushetia republic; Stavropol krai; north Caucasus, most in rural areas.
• Language use: Largest Nakh-Daghestanian language. Used in publishing. Also use Russian [rus].
• Writing system: Cyrillic script [Cyrl].

All info from Ethnologue

Lak Language

Morphological typology

Lak is possibly an agglutinative language since it belongs to Northeast Caucasian Language family and languages from this family can be characterized by strong suffixal agglutination. [2]

Basic Information

• ISO: lbe
• Population: 146,000 (2010 census). Ethnic population: 179,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 154,820.
• Location: Dagestan republic.
• Language use:
• Writing system: Cyrillic script [Cyrl].

All info from Ethnologue

Ingush Language

Morphological typology

Ingush is possibly an agglutinative language [3] with an ergative–absolutive morphosyntactic alignment[4], since it belongs to Northeast Caucasian Language family.

Basic Information

• ISO: inh
• Population: 306,000 (2010 census). Ethnic population: 445,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 322,900.
• Location: Chechnya republic, Ingushetia republic, Kabardino-Balkar republic, and North Ossetia-Alania republic.
• Language use: Also use Russian
• Writing system: Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Cyrillic script [Cyrl]. Latin script [Latn].

All info from Ethnologue