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| olhazar Pentaglot Newbie Croatia Joined 5729 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 7 18 August 2009 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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hello
I would seriously like to start Chechen...I have one book in Russian and I found some pretty good dictionaries... Has anyone tried to learn it? Edited by olhazar on 18 August 2009 at 6:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes  Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 2 of 7 19 August 2009 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Not that I've noticed. But someone's got to be the first.
Haven't you already got some very complicated languages there though? (Looking at your profile) Chechen is a Turkic language, isn't it? That's a whole new language family! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 7 19 August 2009 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
Chechen is definitely in a different language family, but it's not Turkic. Try Northeastern Caucasian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6443 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 4 of 7 19 August 2009 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I can't say that I've seriously studied it, but I dabbled in it briefly while I was studying Avar. It's a beautiful language but I was a bit put off by the idiosyncratic writing system and the weird vowel shifts (that make German seem tame by comparison).
At chechnyafree.ru there's an audio course based on the textbook by Aliroev and a phrasebook with sound. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| olhazar Pentaglot Newbie Croatia Joined 5729 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 7 19 August 2009 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
huh so I have to be the first...Chechen, together with Ingush language belongs to a group of North Caucasian languages..Chechen is different to Georgian.. I found a very good dictionary together with declination, plural forms and class indicators for every noun...past form of the verbs.. this is the site: www.omniglot.com I am also dabbling in Abkhazian, I visited Abkazia last year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6274 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 6 of 7 19 August 2009 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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It is in the Caucasian family, but the term is more a geographical convenience than anything else. The members of the family are not necessarily related to each other. It is certainly not Turkic.
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| zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6443 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 7 of 7 19 August 2009 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's usually divided into Northeast (which Chechen belongs to) Northwest (Abkhaz) and South (Georgian).
Some more resources: http://www.zhaina.com/ http://www.chechnyatoday.com/ (the last link also has a live feed from Chechen State TV/Radio) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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