tchetchentse

Updated: May 3, 2025

Their language differs much from other Caucasian idioms, although the Tcherkesses proceed, with the Wogouls and the Ostiakes we have just seen that the Lesghian and Tchetchentse dialects resemble the Siberian from one common stock, which at some remote date separated into several branches, of which the Huns probably formed one.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

This is not, however, the opinion of Pallas, who looks upon them as a separate tribe of the Alain family. The Tchetchentse language greatly resembles the Samoyede and other Siberian dialects, as well as those of the Slavs. The Tcherkesses, or Circassians, are the Sykhes of the Greeks. They formerly inhabited the eastern Caucasus and the Crimea.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century