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Which languages belong to the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian family?

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Distribution of the Caucasian languages
Caucasian languages

The Nakh branch, also known as the Central Caucasian languages, is a subgroup of the Northeast Caucasian (or Nakho-Dagestanian) language family.12

The Nakh branch consists of the following three languages:

  • Chechen: Spoken primarily in Chechnya, it is a written language with approximately 890,000 speakers.2
  • Ingush: Spoken in Ingushetiya, this language is also written and is fairly similar to Chechen, with about 210,000 speakers.2
  • Bats (or Tsova-Tushian): Spoken by about 3,000 people in the village of Zemo-Alvani in the Akhmeta district of Georgia. Unlike Chechen and Ingush, Bats has no written form, and its speakers utilize Georgian as their literary language.12