Sophocles
5th October 2015, 22:24
Here is a documentary about the history of Ingushetia, a republic of Russia with some 400 000 inhabitants located in the Northern Caucasus between Chechnya, North Ossetia and Georgia. The Ingush fought for Stalin against the nazis and got thanked by being deported to Kazakhstan.
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From the documentary (ca 36 min):
«Our history has been studied very little. We don`t even know much about the time when Magas was destroyed, not much. Other connections are purely linguistic and those connections are with the Sumerian civilization and the ancient kingdom of Urartu. Some of their scripts can be comprehended with the help of the Ingush language.»
Wikipedia on Ingushetia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingushetia)
Ingushetia is one of Russia's poorest and most restive regions. The military conflict in neighboring Chechnya has occasionally spilled into Ingushetia, and the republic has been destabilized by corruption, a number of high-profile crimes (including kidnapping and murder of civilians by government security forces), anti-government protests, attacks on soldiers and officers, Russian military excesses and a deteriorating human rights situation.
The Ingush, a nationality group indigenous to the Caucasus, mostly inhabit Ingushetia.
According to Leonti Mroveli, the 11th-century Georgian chronicler, the word Caucasian is derived from the Vainakh ancestor Kavkas. According to Professor George Anchabadze of Ilia State University "The Vainakhs are the ancient natives of the Caucasus. It is noteworthy, that according to the genealogical table drawn up by Leonti Mroveli, the legendary forefather of the Vainakhs was "Kavkas", hence the name Kavkasians, one of the ethnicons met in the ancient Georgian written sources, signifying the ancestors of the Chechens and Ingush.
As appears from the above, the Vainakhs, at least by name, are presented as the most "Caucasian" people of all the Caucasians (Caucasus – Kavkas – Kavkasians) in the Georgian historical tradition." The Soviet-Russian anthropologists and scientists N.Ya. Marr, V.V. Bounak, R.M. Munchaev, I.M Dyakonov, E.I. Krupnov and G.A. Melikashvilli wrote: "Among Ingush the Caucasian type is preserved better than among any other North Caucasian nation", Professor of anthropology V.V.Bounak "Groznenski Rabochi" 5, VII, 1935.
Professor G.F.Debets recognized that Ingush Caucasian anthropologic type is the most Caucasian among Caucasians. In an article in Science Magazine Bernice Wuethrich states that American linguist Dr. Johanna Nichols "has used language to connect modern people of the Caucasus region to the ancient farmers of the Fertile Crescent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent)" and that her research suggests that "farmers of the region were proto-Nakh-Daghestanians". Nichols is quoted as stating: "The Nakh–Dagestanian languages are the closest thing we have to a direct continuation of the cultural and linguistic community that gave rise to Western civilization". Dr. Henry Harpending, University of Utah supports her claims in the article.
The Ingush have 89% of J2 Y-DNA which is the highest known frequency in the world and J2 is closely associated with the Fertile Crescent. The mitochondrial DNA of the Ingush differs from other Caucasian populations and the rest of the world.
Wikipedia on Northeast Caucasian languages: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages)
Some linguists—notably I. M. Diakonoff and S. Starostin—also see similarities between the Northeast Caucasian family and the extinct languages Hurrian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_language) and Urartian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartian_language). Hurrian was spoken in various parts of the Fertile Crescent in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Urartian was the language of Urartu, a powerful state that existed between 1000 BC or earlier and 585 BC in the area centered on Lake Van in current Turkey.
The two extinct languages have been grouped into the Hurro-Urartian family. Diakonoff proposed the name Alarodian for the union of Hurro-Urartian and Northeast Caucasian.
hSrmticKQNM
From the documentary (ca 36 min):
«Our history has been studied very little. We don`t even know much about the time when Magas was destroyed, not much. Other connections are purely linguistic and those connections are with the Sumerian civilization and the ancient kingdom of Urartu. Some of their scripts can be comprehended with the help of the Ingush language.»
Wikipedia on Ingushetia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingushetia)
Ingushetia is one of Russia's poorest and most restive regions. The military conflict in neighboring Chechnya has occasionally spilled into Ingushetia, and the republic has been destabilized by corruption, a number of high-profile crimes (including kidnapping and murder of civilians by government security forces), anti-government protests, attacks on soldiers and officers, Russian military excesses and a deteriorating human rights situation.
The Ingush, a nationality group indigenous to the Caucasus, mostly inhabit Ingushetia.
According to Leonti Mroveli, the 11th-century Georgian chronicler, the word Caucasian is derived from the Vainakh ancestor Kavkas. According to Professor George Anchabadze of Ilia State University "The Vainakhs are the ancient natives of the Caucasus. It is noteworthy, that according to the genealogical table drawn up by Leonti Mroveli, the legendary forefather of the Vainakhs was "Kavkas", hence the name Kavkasians, one of the ethnicons met in the ancient Georgian written sources, signifying the ancestors of the Chechens and Ingush.
As appears from the above, the Vainakhs, at least by name, are presented as the most "Caucasian" people of all the Caucasians (Caucasus – Kavkas – Kavkasians) in the Georgian historical tradition." The Soviet-Russian anthropologists and scientists N.Ya. Marr, V.V. Bounak, R.M. Munchaev, I.M Dyakonov, E.I. Krupnov and G.A. Melikashvilli wrote: "Among Ingush the Caucasian type is preserved better than among any other North Caucasian nation", Professor of anthropology V.V.Bounak "Groznenski Rabochi" 5, VII, 1935.
Professor G.F.Debets recognized that Ingush Caucasian anthropologic type is the most Caucasian among Caucasians. In an article in Science Magazine Bernice Wuethrich states that American linguist Dr. Johanna Nichols "has used language to connect modern people of the Caucasus region to the ancient farmers of the Fertile Crescent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent)" and that her research suggests that "farmers of the region were proto-Nakh-Daghestanians". Nichols is quoted as stating: "The Nakh–Dagestanian languages are the closest thing we have to a direct continuation of the cultural and linguistic community that gave rise to Western civilization". Dr. Henry Harpending, University of Utah supports her claims in the article.
The Ingush have 89% of J2 Y-DNA which is the highest known frequency in the world and J2 is closely associated with the Fertile Crescent. The mitochondrial DNA of the Ingush differs from other Caucasian populations and the rest of the world.
Wikipedia on Northeast Caucasian languages: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages)
Some linguists—notably I. M. Diakonoff and S. Starostin—also see similarities between the Northeast Caucasian family and the extinct languages Hurrian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_language) and Urartian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartian_language). Hurrian was spoken in various parts of the Fertile Crescent in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Urartian was the language of Urartu, a powerful state that existed between 1000 BC or earlier and 585 BC in the area centered on Lake Van in current Turkey.
The two extinct languages have been grouped into the Hurro-Urartian family. Diakonoff proposed the name Alarodian for the union of Hurro-Urartian and Northeast Caucasian.