Chechen language

Chechen
Нохчийн мотт Noxçiyn mott
Native to	Russia
Region	Republic of Chechnya
Ethnicity	Chechens
Native speakers	1.36 million  (2010)e17
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Nakh Vainakh Chechen
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

The Chechen language is a 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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  Modern Chechen Cyrillic alphabet, handwritten style

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  Uslar and Kedi's 1862 alphabet

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  Chechen alphabet by P.K. Uslar

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  Uslar's 1911 Chechen alphabet

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  Chechen language Arabic script alphabet from 1925 ABC book

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  Banknote of the North Caucasian Emirate

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  Chechen-Soviet newspaper Serlo (Light), written in the Chechen Latin script during the era of Korenizatsiya

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  Chechen Cyrillic on a plate in Grozny, using the digit 1 for palochka.

Other websites

• Indigenous Language of the Caucasus (Chechen), grammatical sketch of Chechen language Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
• 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