Bashkir | |
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башҡорт теле (башҡортса) başqort tele (başqortsa) باشقۇرت تىُلىُ (باشقۇرتسا) باشقرد تلی (باشقردسا) | |
Pronunciation | [bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] |
Native to | Bashkortostan, Russia |
Region | Volga, Ural |
Ethnicity | Bashkirs |
Native speakers | 750,000 (2020 estimate)[1] |
Turkic
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Early form | |
Cyrillic (Bashkir alphabet) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Bashkortostan (Russia) |
Regulated by | Institute of history, language and literature of the Ufa Federal research center the RAS |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ba |
ISO 639-2 | bak |
ISO 639-3 | bak |
Glottolog | bash1264 |
Linguasphere | 44-AAB-bg |
Geographic distribution of Bashkir language in the Russian Empire according to 1897 census | |
Bashkir is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Bashkir (UK: /bæʃˈkɪər/ bash-KEER,[2] US: /bɑːʃˈkɪər/ bahsh-KEER)[3] or Bashkort[4] (Bashkir: Башҡорт теле, romanized: Başqort tele, [bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] ) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by around 750,000 native speakers in Russia, as well as in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other neighboring post-Soviet states, and among the Bashkir diaspora. It has three dialect groups: Southern, Eastern and Northwestern.[1]