Vainakh languages

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The Vainakh (also spelled Veinakh) languages are a dialect continuum that consists of the Chechen and Ingush languages, spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia, as well as in the Chechen diaspora. Together with Bats, they form the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian languages family.[1]

Vainakh
Geographic
distribution
Central Caucasus
Linguistic classificationNortheast Caucasian
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologchec1244
Approximate distribution of the branches of the Northeast Caucasian languages   Nakh   Avar-Andic   Tsezic   Dargin   Lak   Lezgic   Khinalug

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