# Vainakh languages

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{{Short description|Dialect continuum consisting of Chechen and Ingush}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Vainakh
|region=Central [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus)
|familycolor=Caucasian
|fam1=[Northeast Caucasian](/source/Northeast_Caucasian_languages)
|fam2=[Nakh](/source/Nakh_languages)
|child1=''[Chechen](/source/Chechen_language)''
|child2=''[Ingush](/source/Ingush_language)''
|glotto=chec1244
|glottorefname=Chechen–Ingush
}}

thumb | right | Approximate distribution of the branches of the Northeast Caucasian languages   Nakh   Avar-Andic   Tsezic   Dargin   Lak   Lezgic   Khinalug
The '''Vainakh''' (also spelled '''Veinakh''') languages are a [dialect continuum](/source/dialect_continuum) that consists of the [Chechen](/source/Chechen_language) and [Ingush](/source/Ingush_language) languages, spoken mainly in the [Russia](/source/Russia)n republics of [Chechnya](/source/Chechnya) and [Ingushetia](/source/Ingushetia), as well as in the [Chechen diaspora](/source/Chechen_diaspora). Together with [Bats](/source/Bats_language), they form the [Nakh](/source/Nakh_languages) branch of the [Northeast Caucasian languages](/source/Northeast_Caucasian_languages) family.<ref name="kaukhist">[http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/kaukhist.pdf Zur Sprachgeschichte des Kaukasus (On the language history of the Caucasus), page 23.]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [Languages of the Caucasus](/source/Languages_of_the_Caucasus)
* [Northeast Caucasian languages](/source/Northeast_Caucasian_languages)

==References==
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{{Northeast Caucasian languages}}
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Category:Northeast Caucasian languages

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