Bashkir
Sign in to saveTurkic language spoken in Russia
AI overview
Bashkir is a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Bashkortostan region of Russia. It is one of several minority languages in the Russian Federation and represents an important part of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the country's Turkic-speaking populations.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Article
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.
Speakers
Gallery (5)
Connections
Categories
Agglutinative languagesBashkir languageIndigenous languages of European RussiaKipchak languagesLanguage articles with Linguasphere codeLanguage articles without reference fieldLanguages of KazakhstanLanguages with ISO 639-1 codeLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeLanguages written in Cyrillic scriptSubject–object–verb languagesVowel-harmony languages