Distribution: In 2005, 465,438+05,000 people spoke Ingushetia, which spanned the Caucasus, including Ingushetia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Russia. Ingushetia is also spoken in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Norway, Turkey and Jordan.
Official status: Ingushetia and Russian are the official languages of Ingushetia in the Russian Federation.
Writing system: In the early 20th century, Ingushetia was a written language based on Arabic writing system. After the Bolshevik revolution, it was written in Latin letters, followed by Cyrillic letters.