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Chechnya
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ISO 639-1
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ISO 639-2
che
ISO 639-3
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Tschetschenisch[2]
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Chechen (/ˈtʃɛtʃɛn/CHETCH-en,[3]/tʃəˈtʃɛn/chə-CHEN[4]) (Нохчийн мотт, Noxçiyn mott,[5][ˈnɔxt͡ʃĩːmuɔt]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by approximately 1.8 million people, mostly in the Chechen Republic and by members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Russia and the rest of Europe, Jordan, Austria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Central Asia (mainly Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) and Georgia.
Chechen (/ˈtʃɛtʃɛn/ CHETCH-en, /tʃəˈtʃɛn/ chə-CHEN) (Нохчийн мотт, Noxçiyn mott, [ˈnɔxt͡ʃĩː muɔt]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by approximately...
The Chechens (/ˈtʃɛtʃɛnz, tʃəˈtʃɛnz/ CHETCH-enz, chə-CHENZ; Chechen: Нохчий, Noxçiy, Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy), historically also known as Kisti and...
The head of the Chechen Republic or head of Chechnya (Chechen: Мехкада Нохчийн Республика, romanized: Mehkada Nohçiyn Respublika; Russian: Глава Чеченской...
Look up Chechen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chechen may refer to: Chechens, an ethnic group of the Caucasus Chechenlanguage, Northeast Caucasian...
The Second Chechen War (Russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, Chechen: ШолгIа оьрсийн-нохчийн тӀом, lit. 'Second Russian-Chechen War') took place in Chechnya...
Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and...
The Chechen diaspora (Chechen: Нохчийн диаспора) is a term used to collectively describe the communities of Chechen people who live outside of Chechnya;...
The Chechen Mafia (Chechen: Нохчийн мафи, Noxçiyn mafi; Russian: Чеченская мафия, tr. Chechenskaya mafiya) is one of the largest ethnic organized crime...
The Chechen National Army (Chechen: Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri Qoman Eskar; Russian: Национальная Армия Чеченской Республики Ичкерия, romanized: Natsionalnaya...
by their use of the Nakh languages and other cultural similarities. These are chiefly the ethnic Chechen (including the Chechen sub-ethnos, the Kists, in...
Turkish, Neo-Aramaic (four dialects), Circassian, Chechen, Armenian, and finally Greek. None of these languages has official status. Historically, Aramaic was...
a Russian politician and current Head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly affiliated to the Chechen independence movement, through his father who...
the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, they were known as the Chechen Autonomous Oblast and the Ingush Autonomous Oblast, which were unified...
Chechen cuisine is the traditional folk cuisine of the Chechen people, who dwell in the North Caucasus. The bases of Chechen cuisine are meat, leeks, cheese...
today's Chechnya, Russia, which at that time was the de facto independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, where he started wrestling when he was five years...
Chechens in Turkey (Chechen: Туркойчура нохчий; Turkish: Türkiye Çeçenleri) are Turkish citizens of Chechen descent and Chechen refugees living in Turkey...
The naxar (Chechen: нахар, co-spelled nakhar or nahar) is the currency that Chechen separatists planned for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In 1994,...
(15 February 1944 – 21 April 1996) was a Chechen politician, statesman and military leader of the 1990s Chechen Independence movement from Russia. He served...
Chechens in Syria are ethnic Chechens who form a small minority in Syria. Syria is home to a substantial Chechen population who emigrated there due to...
Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At the outbreak of the Second Chechen War he switched...
The Nakh languages are a group of languages within Northeast Caucasian family, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus. Bats is...
The Chechen wolf, or gray wolf (Chechen: Borz, pronounced [bo̞ɾz] or Caucasian pronunciation: [bwoɾz]), is the national animal of the Chechen nation....
Масха́дов; Chechen: Масхадан Али-воӀ Аслан (Халид), romanized: Masxadan Ali-voj Aslan (Xalid); 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was a Soviet and Chechen politician...
Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who was convicted of the Boston Marathon bombing. On April...
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