Language code: `ce`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ce

The table below provides technical details for the Chechen language, designated by the ce code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code	`ce`
Name	Official Chechen Native Нохчийн мотт
Family	Northeast Caucasian
Scripts	Cyrillic
Text direction	Left-to-Right
Language varieties	Plain (Lowland)Mountain (Highland)Akkin (Kist)
Related languages	IngushBats (Batsbi/Tsova-Tush)Avar
Key facts	Belongs to the Nakh branch of the Northeast Caucasian familyHas 40-plus consonants, including ejectives and pharyngealsWritten today with an extended Cyrillic alphabet, but historically used Arabic and Latin scriptsDisplays ergative alignment in its grammarNouns inflect for 6–8 grammatical cases and belong to several noun classes.
Sample phrase	Салам, хьо цу хета?
Character encodings	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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Chechen belongs to the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is officially used in Chechnya, Russia, and is written using Cyrillic script. It is estimated that there are more than 1.8 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Russia

1.5M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Chechen speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ce-RU – Chechen (Russia)

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