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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.
- Writing system: Cyrillic script [Cyrl].
All info from Ethnologue. [2]
Resource Availability
- Resources in this language is very easy to find.
- There are 208,792 articles in Wikipedia in Chechen language.
- There is a Chechen version of [3] available as well.
- Other types of resources are also plentiful online.
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. [4]
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: Also use Russian.
- Writing system: Cyrillic script [Cyrl].
All info from Ethnologue. [5]
Resource Availability
Resources in this language is very easy to find.
- There are 1,216 articles in Wikipedia in Lak language.
- There is a Lak version of Bible as well.
Ingush Language
Morphological typology
Ingush is possibly an agglutinative language [6] with an ergative–absolutive morphosyntactic alignment [7], 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. [8]
Resource Availability
- There is a Ingush version of Bible available.
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_language]
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/che
- ↑ https://ibtrussia.org/en/media?id=CHE Bible
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages#Morphology
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lbe
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages#Morphology
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingush_language#Grammar
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/inh
