Bashkir | |
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башҡорт теле (башҡортса) bashqort tele (bashqortsa) باشقۇرت تىُلىُ (باشقۇرتسا) باشقرد تلی (باشقردسا) | |
![]() Bashkir in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts | |
Pronunciation | [bɑʂ'qʊ̞ɾt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] |
Native to | Bashkortostan (Russian Federation) |
Region | Volga, Ural region |
Ethnicity | Bashkirs |
Native speakers | 1.2 million (2020 census)[1] |
Turkic
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Early form | |
Cyrillic (Bashkir alphabet) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
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 or Bashkort[2] (UK: /bæʃˈkɪər/,[3] US: /bɑːʃˈkɪər/;[4] Bashkir: Башҡорт теле, romanized: Bashqort tele, [bɑʂ'qʊ̞ɾt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] [5]) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by 1.09 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.[1]