ABSTRACT
A Latin-alphabet spelling system for Ingush was devised early in the twentieth century by Magomed Dzhabagiev, though it never received official sanction because he had emigrated and published mention of his name was forbidden in the USSR. Another was created by Zaurbek Mal'sagov in 1921 and used for publication in Ingushetia. Though phonologically astute, it used special symbols (e.g. ae) and diacritics (e.g. c, x'), did not distinguish vowel length, and used letters in idiosyncratic ways (e.g. "h" was used to spell both [h] and glottalization, so that "th" spelled [t']), properties that would eventually have hindered its mass use.
