Johanna Nichols is Professor of Slavic linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is on languages of the Caucasus, Slavic languages, linguistic typology, and historical linguistics.Arbi Vagapov is Professor of applied Chechen linguistics at the University of Grozny. His research is on Chechen grammar and lexicology and historical linguistics. Ronald L. Sprouse is a researcher and programmer in the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His work is primarily in the areas of phonology, morphology, and phonetics.

• Introduction The Chechen language and people Spelling, transcription, and sound system Abbreviations and conventions Structure of Chechen-English dictionary entries Chechen-English dictionary: Cyrillic spelling Chechen-English dictionary: Latin spelling Structure of English-Chechen dictionary entries English-Chechen dictionary Appendices: 1. Cases of nouns 2. Plurals of nouns 3. Pronouns 4. Verb conjugation 5. Gender prefixes 6. Numerals