Nakh Languages - Classification

Classification

• Vainakh languages, a dialect continuum with two literary languages:
  • Chechen – approximately 1,330,000 speakers (2002).
  • Ingush – approximately 413,000 speakers (2002).
• Bats or Batsbi – approximately 3,420 (2000), spoken mostly in Zemo-Alvani, Georgia. Not mutually intelligible with Chechen or Ingush.