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Chechen (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ tʃ ɛ n / CHETCH-en, [4] / tʃ ə ˈ tʃ ɛ n / chə-CHEN; [5] Нохчийн мотт, Noxçiyn mott, [6] [ˈnɔxt͡ʃĩː muɔt]) 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 ...
The history of Chechnya may refer to the history of the Chechens, of their land Chechnya, or of the land of Ichkeria. Chechen society has traditionally been organized around many autonomous local clans, called taips. The traditional Chechen saying goes that the members of Chechen society, like its taips, are (ideally) "free and equal like wolves".
The Georgian scripts ... In his study on the history ... later replaced in the 17th century by Arabic and by the Cyrillic script in the 20th century. [76] Chechen ...
At various times in their history, Chechens used Georgian, Arabic and Latin alphabets; as of 2008, the official script is Russian Cyrillic. Traditionally, linguists attributed both Ingush and Batsbi to the Chechen language (as its dialects) before the endoethnonym Vainakh appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.
Chechnya was first incorporated as a whole into the Russian Empire in 1859 after the decades-long Caucasian War.Tsarist rule was marked by a transition into modern times, including the formation (or re-formation) of a Chechen bourgeoisie, the emergence of social movements, reorientation of the Chechen economy towards oil, heavy ethnic discrimination at the expense of Chechens and others in ...
First Chechen War: The leader of the Russian-backed Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic announced his intention to overthrow Dudayev's government. 11 December: First Chechen War: Russian troops entered Chechnya. 1996: 3 July: 1996 Russian presidential election: Yeltsin narrowly defeated his communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov. 30 August
The Chechen-Russian conflict is one of the longest and most protracted conflicts in modern history, spanning three centuries. [12] Its origins date back to 1785, [13] when the Chechens fought against Russian expansionism into the Caucasus. The Caucasus War was fought between 1817 and 1864.
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.