Салам!
say it: “sah-LAHM”
Chechen
in its own words: нохчийн мотт
- Speakers
- 1.7 million (estimate)
- Family
- Nakh-Dagestanian
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Russian Federation (regional)
Fun fact
Chechen has a rich vowel system: by some analyses around thirty, counting length, nasalisation and diphthongs. English has about twelve monophthongs.