Candy Tsai Fact File: Chechen Language
Candy Tsai Fact File- Chechen Language
Human Geo
11.30.2012
-Introduction:
Chechen is one of the North East Caucasian languages. It is spoken by more than 1.5 billion people, mostly in Chechnya. While it is on the list of endangered languages. It is one of the difficult languages on earth and it contains lots of vowel and consonant sounds. The Chechens are a largely Muslim ethnic group that has lived for centuries in the mountainous North Caucasus region. Since at least 46 languages has spoken in Caucasus, it is one of the most ethnically differentiated regions on earth. Chechen doesn’t have their own alphabet. But after Islam was established, they used Arabic script, and Latin letters were introduced later in the mid-1920s,
Human Geo
11.30.2012
-Introduction:
Chechen is one of the North East Caucasian languages. It is spoken by more than 1.5 billion people, mostly in Chechnya. While it is on the list of endangered languages. It is one of the difficult languages on earth and it contains lots of vowel and consonant sounds. The Chechens are a largely Muslim ethnic group that has lived for centuries in the mountainous North Caucasus region. Since at least 46 languages has spoken in Caucasus, it is one of the most ethnically differentiated regions on earth. Chechen doesn’t have their own alphabet. But after Islam was established, they used Arabic script, and Latin letters were introduced later in the mid-1920s,