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The Hinukh (: гьинухъес hinuqes,

(2025). 9785874441494, Academia.
) are a people of living in 2 villages: Genukh, Tsuntinsky District, their "parent village"; and Novomonastyrskoe, Kizlyarsky District where they settled later and live together with and and also in the cities of . They are being assimilated by the .


History
The Hinukh ethnonym " hinukh" comes from the word hino/ hinu, "the road" ( -kh/ -kho form "at the road", "on the road"). The call them "гьинухъаса" ( hinukhasa), the "ლეკები" ( lekebi) or "დიდოელები" ( didoelebi), and the "гьинузи" ( hinuzi).
(1997). 9785020112377, Наука.

In the official documents and the censuses the Hinukh did not appear as an independent ethnic group. After the forcible deportation of the Vainakh people and disbandment of the Chechen–Ingush ASSR, they were (together with some other Avar–Andi–Dido peoples) resettled in Vedensky District which was given to Dagestan ASSR. After the rehabilitation of the in 1958 they settled back in their native lands.

In 1960s the population of the Hinukh people was estimated to be 200. 2002 Russian Census showed their number as 531. They were considered as a subgroup of Avar people in this census. 2021 Russian census registered 630 Hinukh, nearly all living in .


Genetics
According to genetic studies in 2016, the following haplogroups are found to predominate among Hinukh:

  • J1 (56%)

  • G2 (44%)


Religion
The Hinukh people are overwhelmingly . They converted to Islam possibly in the late 18th century, through the from the and and the , who were already .
(2025). 9785020088085, Наука.


Language
The is a Northeast Caucasian language of the subgroup. Beside their native , many also speak , , and often also other languages of the region.

The first information about Archi language was in a letter from Peter von Uslar to Franz Anton Schiefner dated 1865, where he writes about a special language in Inukho ( i.e. Hinukh). The first written material about was a list of 16 words with their counterparts in , given by the ethnographer and folklorist in his work about the in 1916.

Linguist classified as an independent language, but erroneously described it as a language "between and languages". It was classified as a dialect of the by the linguists D.S. Imnaishvili and E.S. Lomtadze.

The Hinukh people and were not in the list of the ethnic groups and languages of for a long time. They appeared only in the second edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

  • Wixman, Ron. Peoples of the USSR. p. 74.

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