Ingush (/ˈɪŋɡʊʃ/; Гӏалгӏай мотт, Ghalghai mott, pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 350,000 people,[2] known as the Ingush, across a region covering the Russian republics of Ingushetia, Chechnya, North Ossetia, as well as the countries Turkey, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, et al.[4] Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, constitute the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family.

Speakers can also be found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Norway, Turkey and Jordan.

[2][4] Ingush is, alongside Russian, an official language of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia.

The diphthongs are иэ /ie/, уо /uo/, оа /oɑ/, ий /ij/, эи /ei/, ои /oi/, уи /ui/, ов /ow/, ув /uw/.

[11][12] The most recent and in-depth analysis of the language[12] shows eight cases: absolutive, ergative, genitive, dative, allative, instrumental, lative and comparative.