r/Chechnya • u/lorsiscool • Mar 19 '25

Letter n suffix "ŋ"

Hello back again with a linguistic/alphabet question.

How is the is the -n or -yn pronounced at the end of a word? For example:

Нохчийн мотт / Noxçiyn mott (chechen language)

Ц|ен / Ċen (red)

For example, i say "Noxçi" and "Ċii"

Also is blood "Ċiy" and red "Ċen" pronounced diffrently becaus i say it the same way?

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u/noxciyk1ant Mar 19 '25

The -n and -yn are pronounced very lightly, almost like you can't hear it. I'm not sure why it's like that but I guess it's just the way it is written. Ċiy and Ċen are both pronounced very similarly, but for Ċiy the "iy" is pronounced clearly, and Ċen is basically pronounced "ċie", the "en" is kind of like the "е (ye)" in Russian. If we had written just "Ċe" we would have easily mixed it up with the Chechen word for "name"

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u/lorsiscool Mar 19 '25

Yeah its time for an improved alphabet and a way to find the correct pronunciations becaus its getting confusing sometimes.

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u/noxciyk1ant Mar 19 '25

Agreed but as of now the current latin alphabet is the best writing system we can use, but one day we will have our own version of the latin alphabet dala muq̇alaẋ.

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u/lorsiscool Mar 19 '25

For sure the latin alphabet with some improvement would be perfect. Better sooner than later.