• Ingrian bömböräin (dung beetle) [Nirvi 1971: 26] ~ Proto-Nakh *bumbur (beetle)
  • Estonian hoome > homme (tomorrow) [Kallio 2021: 133] ~ Bats ა̄სე̆ (āsĕ) (resp. aasĕ) [Kadagidze 1984: 44] > ასსე̆ (assĕ, calf) [Imnajshvili 1977: 61, 119]
  • Salaca Livonian suiz (wolf) < *suⁱźi < *suźi < *suci [Kallio 2016: 54] ~ nom. pl. Bats ჺანაჲრ (ʿanayr, steam) (resp. ʕanair) < *ʕanaⁱri < *ʕanari
  • Salaca Livonian toiz (truth) < *toⁱźi < *toźi < *toci [Kallio 2016: 54] ~ Bats მაჲჴი̆ (mayqĭ, bread) (resp. maiqĭ) < *maⁱqi < nom. sg. *maqi < obl. *maaq-i-



Revised

  • Proto-Nakh *gaazaᶰ (goat) | *gāʒa(-n) [S&N 1994], *gāʒa [Bjørn 2017] (*z = *ʒ)
  • Proto-Nakh *eepu (hamster, gopher) | *epu [Schrijver 2021]
  • Proto-Nakh *maaCx (sun) | *mālχ [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *jaaCx (six) | *jalχ (~ -ā-) [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *naCxa (butter) | *nalχ[o] [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *aalxazur (eagle; bird) | *ʔālχVʒur [S&N 1994], *ʔaːlxaʒur [Starostin Jr. 2011]
  • Proto-Nakh *bumbur (beetle) | *bumba-r- (~ -ū-) [S&N 1994], *bumbor-oj [Mudrak 2018]
  • Proto-Nakh *maars (sickle) | *mārs [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *naars (cucumber) | *nārs [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *laam (mountain) | *lām [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *laači (falcon) | *laːči [Schrijver 2021]
  • Proto-Nakh *niṭṭ (nettle) | *n(ɦ)iṭṭ (~ -ī-) [S&N 1994]
  • Proto-Nakh *nace (moth) | *naci [S&N 1994], *nace [Schrijver 2021]
  • Proto-Nakh *ʕe (steam) | *ʡe [S&N 1994], *ʕi [Schrijver 2021]
  • Proto-Nakh *maašu (partridge) | *māšu [S&N 1994], *maːšu [Schrijver 2021]
  • Proto-Nakh *ʁoodaʁa (haunch) | *ʁōʁ [S&N 1994], *ghoodagh [Nichols 2004]
  • Proto-Nakh *ħaadu (brain) | *ħadV (~ -ā-) [S&N 1994], *hwaad-u- [Nichols 2004]


Dialects [:1944: is a date, as an indication of the place of residence after the deportation of the Nakh peoples to Central Asia and Siberia (except for the Kist people and Bats people).]

  • Nakh
    • Vainakh [Initially, it includes three separate idioms, two of which (Chechen and Ingush) formed into two separate languages during the Soviet period, the third functions as dialects of the first or second.]
      • Chechen
      • Galanchozh
      • Ingush
    • Bats


Sommerfelt's Ambiguity

  • Starostin & Nikolaev (+ Nichols)
    • *rx > Chechen rx, Ingush rx, Akkin rx, Bats rx
    • *lx > Chechen lx, Ingush lx, Akkin rx, Bats tx (but *aalxazur > -lx- in all)
  • Sommerfelt (+ Schrijver)
    • *rx > Chechen rx, Ingush rx, Akkin rx, Bats rx
    • *tx > Chechen lx, Ingush lx, Akkin rx, Bats tx
  • My ❤
    • *rx > Chechen rx, Ingush rx, Akkin rx, Bats rx
    • *Cx > Chechen lx, Ingush lx, Akkin rx, Bats tx
      • *Cx > Chechen lx, Ingush lx, Akkin rx, Bats ? (+ Arabic مَرْهَم (marham))
    • *lx > Chechen lx, Ingush lx, Akkin lx, Bats lx


Revision of the laryngeal system

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Chechen loomu; Bats lamu, lamun, lamũ, lamuv

Nominative Singular

loam-Ø*laam-Ø

Genitive Singular

loam-a < loam-ã < *loam-ũ < *laam-ũ < *laam-u-ᶰ

Ergative Singular

loam-uo < *loam-u-w < *laam-u-w

Dative Singular

loam-aa < loam-a-a < *loam-a-na < *loam-u-na < *laam-u-na

Instrumental Singular

loam-a-ca < *loam-u-ci < *laam-u-ci [> *laam-i-ci > *leam-i-ci ?]

Comparison Singular

loam-a-l < *loam-u-l < *laam-u-l

Allative Singular

loam-a-ga < *loam-u-go < *laam-u-go

Lative Singular

loam-a-x < *loam-u-x < *laam-u-x


  • Ingush all.sg. loam-a-ga > nom.pl. loam-a-š [> (voicing) loam-a-ž] + all.sg. -ga > all.pl. loam-a-š-ga > (assimilation) loam-a-š-ka > (alignment) loam-a-ž-ka > loamažka (лоам)


Case Gloss Chechen (sg.) Ingush (sg.) Bats (sg.)
Nominative nom
Genitive gen -n ⟨-н⟩ -a ⟨-а⟩, -n ⟨-н⟩ -Ṽ ⟨-
Ergative erg -uo ⟨-о⟩, -s ⟨-с⟩ -uo ⟨-о⟩, -z ⟨-з⟩ -v ⟨-ვ⟩, -s ⟨-ს⟩
Dative dat -na ⟨-на⟩ -na ⟨-на⟩, -aa ⟨-а⟩ -n ⟨-ნ⟩
Case Gloss Chechen (sg.) Ingush (sg.) Bats (sg.) Proto-Nakh (sg.) Chechen model 1888 (sg.) Chebarloish dialect (sg.) Proto-Nakh (sg.)
Nominative nom butt butt butt *butt butt *butt
Genitive gen bett-ã bett-a batt-ĩ *batt-i-ᶰ bett-ĩ *batt-i-ᶰ
Ergative erg batt-uo bett-uo batt-a-v *batt-a-w batt-uō -uo *batt-a-w
Dative dat batt-a-na bett-aa batt-a-n *batt-a-nV batt-a-na -na *batt-a-na


  • *ebc̣aᶰ (v.) ~ *dašeb (n.) ~ *ṭateb (n.)
  • Ch. ийза, In. овза, Ba. ebc̣ã ~ Ch. деши, In. дошув ~ Ch. дети, In. дотув, Ba. ṭateb


References edit

Bats edit

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Chechen edit

  • Arsakhanov, Israil (1959) Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушского языка [Akkin dialect in the system of the Chechen-Ingush language] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House
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  • Malsagov, Zaurbek K. (1936) Известия Чечено-Ингушского Научно-Исследовательского Института: Очерк аккинского (ауховского) языка [The News of the Chechen-Ingush Research Institute: A sketch of the Akkin language] (in Russian), volume 1 (4), Grozny: Printing house of the Chechen-Ingush Research Institute
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  • Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1929) Самоучитель чеченского языка [Self-teaching book of the Chechen language], Grozny: Typographic-literary publishing house of the newspaper “Serlo”, Krainatsizdat
  • Timaev, Apti D. (1966) Шатойский говор горного диалекта чеченского языка в сравнении с плоскостным диалектом и итумкалинским говором, Tbilisi: Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR
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  • Nichols, Johanna, Vagapov, Arbi (2004) “Gnosandes/Nakh”, in Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon

Ingush edit

  • Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1963) Грамматика ингушского языка [Grammar of the Ingush language]‎[5] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Grozny: Chechen-Ingush book publishing house
  • Nichols, Johanna B. (2011) Ingush Grammar[6], volume 143, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN
  • Mutalijev, Xadži-Bekir Šovxalovič (1941) Эрсий-гӏалгӏай словарь юххьерча школенна / Русско-ингушский словарь для начальной школы [Russian-Ingush dictionary for elementary school] (overall work in Ingush and Russian), Grozny: Chechingosizdat
  • Kurkijev, A. S. (2005) “Nakh”, in Ингушско-русский словарь [Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Magas: Serdalo
  • Dolakova, Raisa I. (1967) “Ингушский язык [Ingush language]”, in Иберийско-кавказские языки [Iberian-Caucasian languages] (Языки народов СССР), volume 4, Moscow: Science
  • Nichols, Johanna B. (2004) “Gnosandes/Nakh”, in Ingush–English and English–Ingush Dictionary, London and New York: Routledge
  • Genko, Anatolii N. (1930) “Из культурного прошлого ингушей [From the cultural past of the Ingush]”, in Записки коллегии востоковедов при Азиатском музее АН СССР, volume V, Leningrad, pages 681–761
  • Bekova, A. I., Dudarov, U. B., Ilijeva, F. M., Malʹsagova, L. D., Tarijeva, L. U. (2009) “Gnosandes/Nakh”, in Ingušsko-russkij slovarʹ [Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Nalchik: Ingušskij NII GN
  • Ozdoev, Ibragim A. (1980) Русско-ингушский словарь [Russian-Ingush dictionary]‎[7] (in Russian), Moscow: Russian languge

General edit

  • Aliroev, Ibragim Ju. (1975) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь отраслевой лексики чеченского и ингушского языков и диалектов [Comparative-Contrastive Dictionary of the Branch Lexicon of the Chechen and Ingush Languages and Dialects] (in Russian), Makhachkala: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House
  • Imnajšvili, David S. (1977) Историко-сравнительный анализ фонетики нахских языков / ნახური ჯგუფის ენათა ფონეტიკის ისტორიულ-შედარებითი ანალიზი [Historical and comparative analysis of the phonetics of the Nakh languages] (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
  • Macijev, A. G., Ozdojev, I. A., Džamalxanov, Z. D. (1962) Нохчийн-гӏалгӏайн-оьрсийн словарь / Чеченско-ингушско-русский словарь [Chechen–Ingush–Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House
  • Desheriev, Yunus D. (1963) Сравнительно-историческая грамматика нахских языков и проблемы происхождения и исторического развития горских кавказских народов [Comparative-historical grammar of the Nakh languages and the problems of the origin and historical development of the mountain Caucasian peoples] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House
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  • Schrijver, Peter (2021) “A history of the vowel systems of the Nakh languages (East Caucasian), with special reference to umlaut in Chechen and Ingush”, in Languages of the Caucasus[8], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN
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  • Старчевский, А. В. (1891) Кавказский толмач (Переводчик с русского на главнейшие кавказские языки) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Тип. И.Н. Скороходова