Editing Chechen language (section)

== History ==
Before the [[Caucasian War|Russian conquest]], most writings in [[Chechnya]] consisted of [[Islamic]] texts and clan histories, written usually in Arabic but sometimes also in Chechen using Arabic script. The Chechen literary language was created after the [[October Revolution]], and the [[Latin script]] began to be used instead of Arabic for Chechen writing in the mid-1920s. The [[Cyrillic script]] was adopted in 1938. Almost the entire library of Chechen medieval writing in Arabic and Georgian script about the land of Chechnya and its people was destroyed by Soviet authorities in 1944, leaving the modern Chechens and modern historians with a destroyed and no longer existent historical treasury of writings.<ref>Jaimoukha. ''Chechens''. Page 212</ref>

The Chechen diaspora in [[Jordan]], [[Turkey]], and [[Syria]] is fluent but generally not literate in Chechen except for individuals who have made efforts to learn the writing system. The Cyrillic alphabet is not generally known in these countries, and thus for Jordan and Syria, they most use the Arabic alphabet, while in Turkey they use the Latin alphabet.