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Tatar | |
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татар теле tatar tele تاتار تئلئ • تاتار تلی | |
![]() Tatar in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts | |
Region | Northern Eurasia |
Ethnicity | Tatars |
Speakers | L1: 4 million (2020)[1] L2: 810,000 (2020)[1] |
Turkic
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Early form | |
Dialects |
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Tatar alphabet (Cyrillic, Latin, formerly Arabic) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Tatarstan (Russia) |
Recognised minority language in | |
Regulated by | Institute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | tt |
ISO 639-2 | tat |
ISO 639-3 | tat |
Glottolog | tata1255 |
Linguasphere | 44-AAB-be |
![]() Tatar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [4] | |
Tatar (/ˈtɑːtər/ TAH-tər;[5] татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia and Crimea.