Chechen language
Chechen ( , ) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by more than 1.4 million people, mostly in the Chechen Republic and by members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Russia, Jordan, Central Asia (mainly Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), and Georgia.
Chechen Kurds
While it was already reported by Kurdish writer Mehmet Şerif Fırat, in his description of Varto in 1948 that the Chechens there had forgotten the Chechen language, the Turkish state, in a secret report in 1987, claimed that the Chechens spoke Kurdish as their mother tongue.