Chechen is the most-spoken Northeast Caucasian language. Together with the closely related Ingush, with which there exists a large degree of mutual intelligibility and shared vocabulary, it forms the Vainakh branch.

Chechen is a North East Caucasian language spoken mainly in Chechnya in the Russian Federation by about 1.35 million people.

Chechen is a highly inflected and mostly agglutinative type language with a robust case system in its nominal morphology. Nouns in Chechen often undergo morphophonological alternations and display the addition of additional phonological material when case suffixes are added.

May 24, 2024 · Chechen, like Ingush and Bats, belongs to the Vainakh subset of North-East Caucasian languages. The ancient Caucasian languages constitute a branch of their own in the human language tree and are not related to the Semitic, Turkic or Indo-Germanic languages.

Jun 12, 2017 · Chechen is a Northern Caucasian language language of the Nakh family. It is the mother tongue of over 1.3 million people all over the world. It is also the vernacular language of the Republic of Chechnya, located in Southwest Russia in …

Chechen was not traditionally a written language. An orthography using the Russian alphabet was created in the 1930's and is used for various kinds of publication, although for most Chechens the chief vehicle of literacy is Russian.

Chechen (Нохчийн) is the largest member of the North Caucasian language group. It is spoken in geographically diverse regions of the world ranging from Russia and Western Europe to the Middle East. According to the Russian census of 2002, there are 1,350,000 speakers of Chechen.

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 is the first language of the great majority of the Chechen people, who numbered somewhat over a million in 1994. The present number is less, perhaps under 800,000. In terms of linguistic typology, Chechen is head-final, ergative, moderately synthetic, and dependent-marking.

Although Chechan (Chechen) was a term used by Chechens to denote a certain geographic area (central Chechnya), Chechens called themselves Nakhchiy (highland dialects) or Nokhchiy (lowland dialects). The oldest mention of Nakhchiy occurred in 1310 by the Georgian Patriarch Cyril Donauri, who mentions the 'People of Nakhche' among Tushetians, Avars and many …