Ingush Ghalghaaj Ghalghai
The Ingush are a Caucasic-speaking people, living for the most part in the north-central caucasus region of southwestern Russia. Their North caucasic language is classified as part of the North-Central (Nakh) branch and related to the languages of the Chechens and the Bats of the nation of Georgia to the south in Asia. The cyrillic alphabet is used in the written form. The name Ingush was applied to them by the Russian Slavs, based on the name of the village Angusht; their native name is Ghalghaaj, a clan confederation. Like other Caucasians, the Ingush are considered indigenous to the region, perhaps maintaining tribal identity since the second millennium b.c.e.
Traditionally organized by clans and tribes, they were originally a mountain people who
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