The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, a member of the Kyphchak group of languages. The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... Kypchaks (also Kipchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. The western Kypchaks were also named Kuman, Kun and Polovtsian (pl. ...

Speakers

The 1989 population census showed over 1,047,000 native speakers of the Bashkir language living in the USSR. Additional 26,737 claimed Bashkir to be their secondary language. Approximately 300,000 Bashkirs said that Tatar was their native language. 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. ... The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça) is an Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. ...

Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, as well as in neighboring Tatarstan and Udmurtia. Substantial number of the speakers also live in Chelyabinsk, Perm, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, and Kurgan Oblasts. Large Bashkir minority groups also live in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria (Russian: Респу́блика Башкортоста́н or Башки́рия; Bashkir:) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Republic of Tatarstan (Russian: Респу́блика Татарста́н or Тата́рия; Tatar: Татарстан Республикасы/Tatarstan Respublikası) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... This article is currently being expanded and converted over to the new format proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian federal subjects. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... The Perm Oblast (Пе́рмская о́бласть) is an oblast in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District of Russia. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russian: Свердло́вская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Urals Federal District. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ...

Alphabet and dialects

Even though Bashkirs originally were of Ugric or Finnic tribes, they initially adopted the Bolgar language. After the Mongol invasion, the Kypchak language became more common due to the fact that it was the language spoken by the majority of the Golden Horde tribes. Bolgar (also Bolğar), the language of the Bulgars, was a language, now extinct, whose classification is unknown. ... The Mongol Invasion of Russia was an invasion of the medieval state of Kievan Rus by a large army of nomadic Mongols, starting in 1223. ... The Kipchak language was an extinct Turkic language of Kipchak-Bolghar group. ... This article refers to the Mongol state in what is now Russia. ...

Modern Bashkir language, like the similar Tatar language, takes its roots from the Kypchak group of languages. Today the language has many dialects, which are very similar to Tatar. In the past, Bashkirs used Tatar as a written language. In the 15th century it was replaced with the Chagatay language (however, according to some researchers, it was replaced with the Old Tatar variant of Chagatay), which was in use until 1923. Both Tatar and Chagatay were written in Arab letters. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... The Chagatai language is an extinct Turkic language spoken in Central Asia. ... Old Tatar language (İske Tatar tele) is a literary language used in the Khanate of Kazan and among Muslim Tatars. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1923, a writing system was specifically created for the Bashkir language. Also own literary language was created, using the most differ than bourgeous Tatar language dialect. At first, it used a modified Arabic alphabet. In 1930 it was replaced with a Latin-based alphabet, which was in turn replaced with an adapted Cyrillic alphabet in winter of 1938. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Latin is the language that was originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Currently, a new Latin-based Bashkir alphabet is being developed. It is planned to replace the Cyrillic alphabet before 2010; a move strongly influenced by a similar request on Tatar part. 2010 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Cyrillic alphabet used by Bashkir is the same as the Russian alphabet, with the addition of the following letters: Ә ә Ө ө Ү ү Ғ ғ Ҡ ҡ Ң ң Ҙ ҙ Ҫ ҫ Һ һ. This image is the site logo used on the English Wikipedia, the Wiki. ... Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia that is written collaboratively by volunteers. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

The language codes of the Bashkir language are BXK and ba.