Nokhchi

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Nokhchi is the endonym used by the Chechen people to refer to themselves as an ethnic group indigenous to the North Caucasus region.

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Nokhchi canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chechen people
endonym
ethnic group
associatedConflict First Chechen War
Second Chechen War
autonymOf Chechens
surface form: Chechen nation
country Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
culturalArea Vainakh
demographicMajorityIn Chechnya
surface form: Chechen Republic
deportationEvent 1944 deportation of Chechens and Ingush
deportedBy Soviet Union
ethnicIdentity Vainakh
surface form: Vainakh peoples
ethnicReligion Islam
ethnonymFor Chechens
exonymInRussian Chechens
surface form: Chechentsy
hasDiasporaIn Europe
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Syria
Turkey
historicalEmpire Russian Empire
historicalState Chechen-Ingush ASSR
indigenousTo Chechnya
North Caucasus
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages
locatedIn Caucasus
Eastern Europe
Southwestern Russia
majorReligion Sunni Islam
minorityIn Dagestan
Ingushetia
primaryLanguage Chechen language
surface form: Chechen
region Chechnya
surface form: Chechen Republic

North Caucasus
relatedEthnicGroup Ingush
Kists
religiousTradition Sufism
returnFromExile late 1950s
selfDesignationOf Chechen people
sharesCulturalHeritageWith Ingush people
traditionalDance Chechen dance
traditionalMusic Chechen folk music
traditionalReligion Sunni Islam of Hanafi school
traditionalSocialStructure teip (clan) system
traditionalTerritory Chechnya
parts of Dagestan
usedInLanguage Chechen language
writingSystemForLanguage Cyrillic script

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Chechens autonym Nokhchi