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Chechen Culture
Chechen Language
Chechen Literacy Dates Back to the Ancient Urartu State
As of 1938, Chechen written language was based on the Cyrillic alphabet, while previously Chechens wrote in the Arabic graphics. And what graphic base was used in the ancient Chechen written language? Grozny-Inform agency posed the question to Abdulla Arsanukayev, rector of educational problems institute.
The roots of ancient Chechen literacy go back thousands of years to Urartu wedge-like inscriptions. The genetic affinity of the Chechen language to Hurrito-Urartu roots has been corroborated by world-known scholar-linguists. The affinity of Hurrito-Urartu and Nakh languages was proved in indisputable factual materials compiled by Y. Braun, G. Klimov, D. Desheriyev, I. Dyakonova, A. Chikobava, V. Timayev and other scholars. These specialists paid attention to the wealth of lexical, morphological and syntactic
similarities, but also noted amazing facts in word-formation models in the Urartu language, which match completely those in the modern Chechen language.
Prof. V. Timayev, after a painstaking analysis of factual material at hand, works by Urartologists, devoted to this problem, concluded: From the incomplete fact list available, which corroborate the genetic affinity of Hurrito-Urartu and proto-Nakh languages, it is possible to make a logical conclusion that ancestors of ancient Hurrito-Urartu-proto-Nakhs, the modern Nakhs Chechens, Ingushis, Batzbiytzes shared an ancient written language and we are now inheritors of wedge writing of more than three millennia
history.
Ancient Chechen written language underwent changes for centuries with its ups and downs, occasionally edging toward complete extinction, but sprang back again to restoration sometimes on a completely different graphic base depending on any particular influence on Chechnya of the time. Theres available data to suggest that ancient Chechens used Greek and Armenian graphics. It is also established from reliable sources that in the 8-9th centuries A.D. Chechens ancestors who inhabited the present-day territory
of Chechnya and Ingushetia, shared a written language modeled on the Georgian writing style. Later on Arabic characters gained wide usage in Chechnya. And there is completely no ground for asserting that beginning from the 16th century Chechnya Ingushetia was devoid of a written language. Islam began spreading in Chechnya by the 16th century accompanied Arabic written language. Initially, mutalims (disciples) were dispatched to Saudi Arabia for studies but subsequently Islamic schools began opening in Chechnya
itself. Later, the Arabic graphics gave birth to a Chechen written language, which was initially used for writing theological and ethical treatises, in private correspondence and still later for official and commercial correspondence and teaching literature.
The Chechen written language based on the Arabic graphics existed for a long time, up to the years 1925-1927 the time of transfer to the Latin alphabet.
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