Chechen language
The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1,3 million people. It is spoken mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people in other places. It is one of the Northeast Caucasian languages.
| Chechen | ||||
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| Нохчийн мотт Noxçiyn mott | ||||
| Native to | Russia | |||
| Region | Republic of Chechnya | |||
| Ethnicity | Chechens | |||
| Native speakers | 1.36 million (2010)e17 | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Writing system | Cyrillic, Latin (present) Arabic, Georgian (historical) | |||
| Official status | ||||
| Official language in | Chechnya, Dagestan | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1 | ce | |||
| ISO 639-2 | che | |||
| ISO 639-3 | che | |||
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Chechen Language Media
Modern Chechen Cyrillic alphabet, handwritten style
Chechen alphabet by P.K. Uslar
Uslar's 1911 Chechen alphabet
Chechen language Arabic script alphabet from 1925 ABC book
Banknote of the North Caucasian Emirate
Chechen-Soviet newspaper Serlo (Light), written in the Chechen Latin script during the era of Korenizatsiya
Chechen Cyrillic on a plate in Grozny
Other websites
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Chechen language edition. |
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The English Wikibooks has more information on: |
- Indigenous Language of the Caucasus (Chechen), grammatical sketch of Chechen language
- The Cyrillic and Latin Chechen alphabets
- The Chechen language | Noxchiin mott Wealth of linguistic information.
- Rferl North Caucasus Radio (also includes Avar and Adyghe)
- Chechen Language course including audio Archived 2008-05-26 at the Wayback Machine with Russian explanations
- Russian-Chechen On-Line Dictionary Archived 2013-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Chechen basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- Chechen Cyrillic - Latin converter
