The Hinukh people were already mentioned in the Georgian chronicles of the Early Middle Ages.

[citation needed] Like many Caucasian languages, Hinuq has a large number of consonants.

The spatial case system itself consists of two categories, location (cont, in, sub, spr, at, aloc, iloc) and orientation, expressed by the use of direction markers (Essive, Lative, First Ablative, Second Ablative, Directional).

To form the oblique stem, there are different options, including oblique suffixes, epenthetic vowels, deletion of the base-stem-final consonant, vowel, or semivowel; stress shift or ablaut.

There are five genders in Hinuq which play an important role in the language's grammar.