Nakh

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The speakers of these languages. plural, plural-only
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A group of languages within Northeast Caucasian, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus within Southern Russia.

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kistkistian

Etymology

An exonym of Nakh origin given by Russian ethnographers, derived from [script needed] (nakh, “people”). Compare Chechen нохчи (noxči). More at Nakh.

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