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name
A group of languages within Northeast Caucasian, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus within Southern Russia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The speakers of these languages.
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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History
An exonym of Nakh origin given by Russian ethnographers, derived from [script needed] (nakh, “people”). Compare Chechen нохчи (noxči). More at Nakh.
