page_title: Chechen language
section_title: Alphabets
hierarchical_section_title: Chechen language / Alphabets
caption_attribution_description: English: banknote north caucasian emirate, 100 rouble (1919) Deutsch: Banknote Nordkaukasisches Emirat, 100 Rubel(1919)
context_page_description: Chechen is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by some 1.4 million people, mostly in the Chechen Republic and by members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Europe, Russia, Jordan, Central Asia and Georgia.
context_section_description: Numerous inscriptions in the Georgian script are found in mountainous Chechnya, but they are not necessarily in Chechen. Later, the Arabic script was introduced for Chechen, along with Islam. The Chechen Arabic alphabet was first reformed during the reign of Imam Shamil, and then again in 1910, 1920 and 1922.
  At the same time, the alphabet devised by Peter von Uslar, consisting of Cyrillic, Latin, and Georgian letters, was used for academic purposes. In 1911 it too was reformed but never gained popularity among the Chechens themselves.
  The Latin alphabet was introduced in 1925. It was unified with Ingush in 1934, but abolished in 1938.
  In 1938–1992, only the Cyrillic alphabet was used for Chechen.
caption: Banknote of the North Caucasian Emirate
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