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{{Infobox language
|name=Chechen
|nativename=Нохчийн мотт <br> Noxçiyn mott
|states=[[Russia]]
|region=Republic of [[Chechnya]]
|speakers=1.36 million
|date=2010
|ref=e17
|ethnicity=[[Chechens]]
|script=[[Cyrillic]], [[Latin script|Latin]] <small>(present)</small><br>[[Arabic script|Arabic]], [[Georgian alphabet|Georgian]] <small>(historical)</small>
|familycolor=Caucasian
|fam1=[[Northeast Caucasian languages|Northeast Caucasian]]
|fam2=[[Nakh languages|Nakh]]
|fam3=[[Vainakh languages|Vainakh]]
|nation=[[Chechnya]], [[Dagestan]]
|iso1=ce|iso2=che|iso3=che
|notice=IPA
}}

The '''Chechen language''' is a [[North Caucasus|North Caucasian]] language which 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 Language Media ==
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File:Noxchiyn abat.jpg|Modern Chechen Cyrillic alphabet, handwritten style

File:Нохчийн абат 1862 шо. Автор Къеди Досов.png|Uslar and Kedi's 1862 alphabet

File:Chechen alphabet by Uslar.JPG|Chechen alphabet by P.K. Uslar

File:Chechen Uslar.jpg|Uslar's 1911 Chechen alphabet

File:Chechen alphabet-1925.png|Chechen language Arabic script alphabet from 1925 ABC book

File:Banknote north caucasian emirate.jpg|Banknote of the [[North Caucasian Emirate]]

File:Serlo.png|Chechen-Soviet newspaper Serlo (Light), written in the Chechen Latin script during the era of [[Korenizatsiya]]

File:Beriyn Poliklinika, Sölƶa-Ġala.jpg|Chechen Cyrillic on a plate in Grozny, using the digit 1 for palochka.
</gallery>
== Other websites ==
{{InterWiki|code=ce}}
{{Wikibooks|Chechen}}
*[http://ingush.narod.ru/chech/book/ ''Indigenous Language of the Caucasus (Chechen)'', grammatical sketch of Chechen language] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165533/http://ingush.narod.ru/chech/book/ |date=2016-03-03 }}
*[http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/chechen.pdf The Cyrillic and Latin Chechen alphabets]
*[http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~chechen/ The Chechen language | Noxchiin mott] Wealth of linguistic information.
*[http://www.radiomarsho.com/ Rferl North Caucasus Radio (also includes Avar and Adyghe)]
*[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/article.php?IBLOCK_ID=389 Chechen Language course including audio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526064944/http://www.chechnyafree.ru/article.php?IBLOCK_ID=389 |date=2008-05-26 }} with Russian explanations
*[http://nohchiyn.net/misc.php?do=page&template=dosham Russian-Chechen On-Line Dictionary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809014030/http://nohchiyn.net/misc.php?do=page&template=dosham |date=2013-08-09 }}
*[http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\ncc\nah&limit=-1 Chechen basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database]
*[http://www.transliteration.kpr.eu/ce/ Chechen Cyrillic - Latin converter]

{{Languages of the Caucasus}}

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[[Category:Caucasian languages]]


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