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Name:
Chechen
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Galancho; Nokhchiin; Nokchiin Muott
Spoken in:
Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Georgia, Germany, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey
Number of speakers:
1,330,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census). 233,216 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 1,341,000. Ethnic population: 1,360,253
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1331844
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
955600
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
che
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Nakh-Daghestanian (North East Caucasian; Caucasian; North Caucasian (highly contested))
Parent Subgroup:
Chechen-Ingush (chig)
Child Dialects:
Ploskost (che-plo)
Melkhin (che-mel)
Itumkala; Shatoi (che-itu)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Chechen
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