The Chechen Sound System, in the Latin transcription used here.

Consonants:

	labial	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal
voiceless	p	t	c	ch	k	q	w	'
glottalized(ejective)	p'	t'	c'	ch'	k'	q'
voiced	b	d			g
fricatives	(f)		s	sh	x		hw	h
voiced fricatives	v		z	zh		gh
nasals	m		n
other resonants		l	r	rh
glide			j

Vowels:

	front		central		back
high	i	ii	y	yy	u	uu
mid	e	ee			o	oo
	ia	ie	oe	oe	o	uo
			a
low	ae		aa	aa		oa
	ei		ai	aai		oi
	eu					ou

Note that in some instances the Latinization used here spells two sounds alike:  “o” spells both plain and diphthongized short vowels, “oe” spells both long and short vowels, and “aa” spells both long and shortened vowels.  For each of these pairs of sounds the two pronunciations are largely predictable.  All three cases are discussed below  (The current Cyrillic spelling spells many more sets of different sounds alike, and does so where the difference is not predictable.)

The Chechen Sound System, in the current Cyrillic orthography.

Consonants:

	labial	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal
voiceless	п	т	ц	ч	к	кх	1	ъ, *
glottalized(ejective)	пI	тI	цI	чI	кI	къ
voiced	б	д			г
fricatives	(ф)		с	ш	х		хь	хI
voiced fricatives	в		з	ж		кI
nasals	м		н
other resonants		л	р	рхI
glide			й,  **

Vowels:

	front		central		back
high	и	ий	уь	уьй	у	у
mid	е, э	е, э			о	о
	е, э	е, э	оь	оь	о	о
			а
low	аь		а	а		а
	эй, ей		ай	ай		ой
	эв, ев					ов

*Often not written, e.g. хаам (our xa'am) 'information, communication'.
** Also written with the 'soft' vowel letters е, ю, я.

The Chechen Sound System, in phonetic transcription.


(The sound  f, parenthesized below, is not originally a Chechen consonant, but has entered the language in words taken over from Russian.)  The transcription is the International Phonetic Alphabet except for c&, s&, etc.

Consonants:

	labial	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal
voiceless	p	t	c	c&	k	q	Ö	/
ejective	p'	t'	c'	c&'	k'	q'
voiced	b	d			g
fricatives	(f)		s	s&	x		ð	h
voiced fricatives	v		z	z&	©
nasal	m		n
		l	r
voiceless			r¥
glide			j

Vowels and diphthongs (the parenthesized diphthongs are dialect variants):

	front		central		back
high	i	iù	y	yù	u	uù
mid	E	eù			o	où
	JQ	iE	yš	yšù	u�	uù�
				ú
				Ã
low	Q		a	aù		oa / �
	ei»		Ãi»	ai»	(oi»)	u�i»
	front		central		back
high	i	iù	y	yù	u	uù
mid	E	eù			o	où
	JQ	iE	yš	yšù	u�	uù�
				ú
				Ã
low	Q		a	aù		oa / �
	ei»		Ãi»	ai»	(oi»)	u�i»
	(Eu»)					Ãu»