Bashkir language
| Bashkir | |
|---|---|
| башҡорт теле (башҡортса) başqort tele (başqortsa) باشقۇرت تىُلىُ (باشقۇرتسا) باشقرد تلی (باشقردچە) | |
Bashkir in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts | |
| Pronunciation | [bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] ⓘ |
| Native to | Bashkortostan, Russia |
| Region | Volga-Ural region |
| Ethnicity | 1.57 million Bashkirs in Russian Federation (2021 Russian census) |
Native speakers | 1,08 million (2020) |
Early form | |
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| Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic (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 |
Bashkir is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Bashkir (UK: /bæʃˈkɪər/ bash-KEER, US: /bɑːʃˈkɪər/ bahsh-KEER) or Bashkort (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 approximately 1.6 million native speakers in Russia, as well as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, and other neighboring post-Soviet states, and among the Bashkir diaspora. It has three dialect groups: Southern, Eastern, and Northwestern.