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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 Chechen code of honor and customary law implies moral and ethical behaviour, generosity and the will to safeguard the honor of women. The traditional Chechen saying goes that the members of Chechen society, like its teips, are (ideally) "free and equal like wolves". [102] [103] A phandar, a traditional Chechen musical instrument
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 ...
Shha with hook (Һ̡, һ̡), also referred to as Heng, is a letter of the Cyrillic script formerly used in some alphabets in Kabardian and a 1908 alphabet for Chechen. [ 1 ] Use
The Cyrillic script family contains many specially treated two-letter combinations, or digraphs, but few of these are used in Slavic languages. In a few alphabets, trigraphs and even the occasional tetragraph or pentagraph are used. In early Cyrillic, the digraphs оу and оѵ were used for /u/.
The following multigraphs are used in the Cyrillic script.The palatalized consonants of Russian and other languages written as C- ь are mostly predictable and therefore not included here unless they are irregular.
Exhibition in the Republican Children's Library of the Chechen Republic, dedicated to Chechen etiquette. Quonahalla (Chechen: Къо́нахалла, къонах (quonah) - "a worthy man") is the Chechen ethic code.