ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Eurasia · ISO 639-3 che · Glottocode chec1245

Chechen

Chechen shows another documented configuration in Eurasia: a language of the Nakh-Daghestanian family, threatened source status, and a likely Cyrillic script assignment.

Language family
Nakh-Daghestanian
Likely script
Cyrillic (Cyrl)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
Eurasia
Source country codes
GE · KZ · RU
Reference point
43.500, 45.500

Open research question

How do members of the Chechen language community describe their varieties, linguistic spaces, and relations with neighbouring languages?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.