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Encyclopedia > Bashkir language
Bashkir language
Башҡорт теле Bašqort tele
Spoken in: Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Total speakers: more than 1,400,000
Language family: Altaic
 Turkic
  Kypchak
   Kypchak-Bolgar
    Bashkir language 
Official status
Official language of: Bashkortostan
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: ba
ISO 639-2: bak
ISO 639-3: bak

The Bashkir language is a Turkic language. Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... Altaic is a proposed language family which includes 66 languages [1] spoken by about 348 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and northeast Asia. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ... The Kypchak languages (also known as the Kipchak, Qypchaq, or Northeastern Turkic languages), are a major branch of the Turkic language family spoken by more than 12 million people in an area spanning from Lithuania to China. ... The Republic of Bashkortostan, or Bashkiria (Russian: or ; Bashkir: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of the sounds of human speech. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ...

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Speakers

The 2002 population census showed over 1,379,000 native speakers of the Bashkir language living in the Russia. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...


Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. Substantial number of the speakers also live in Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, and Kurgan Oblasts. Large Bashkir minority groups also live in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The Republic of Bashkortostan, or Bashkiria (Russian: or ; Bashkir: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... Republic of Tatarstan (Russian: ; Tatar: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... The Udmurt Republic (Russian: ; Udmurt: Удмурт Элькун) or Udmurtia (Russian: Удму́ртия) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... Perm Krai (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. ... Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russian: , Chelyabinskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Orenburg Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Flag of Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russian: , Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Urals Federal District. ... Kurgan Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ...


Alphabet and dialects

Even though Bashkirs originally were 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), also Proto-Bulgarian is the language of the Bulgars, now extinct, whose classification is unclear. ... 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. ... The four successor Khanates of the Mongol Empire: Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty), Golden Horde, Il-Khanate and Chagatai Khanate The Golden Horde (Mongolian: Altan Ordyn Uls; Turkish: ; Tatar: ; Russian: ) was a Mongol[1][2][3][4] — later Turkicized[3] — khanate established in parts of present-day Russia...


The 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, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the languages speakers. ... (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. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 1923, a writing system was specifically created for the Bashkir language. At the same time, a Bashkir literary language was created, moving away from the "bourgeois" Tatar influences. 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. For other uses, see Alphabet (disambiguation). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...


Cyrillic alphabet used by Bashkir is the same as the Russian alphabet, with the addition of the following letters: Ә ә [æ], Ө ө [œ], Ү ү [y], Ғ ғ [ɣ], Ҡ ҡ [q], Ң ң [ŋ], Ҙ ҙ [ð], Ҫ ҫ [θ], Һ һ [h]. Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Cyrillic schwa (Ó˜, Ó™) is a Cyrillic letter. ... The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ó¨, Ó©) is an O with a horizontal line through it. ... The Cyrillic letter Straight U or Hamza + Waw with Damma (Ò®, Ò¯) (in Kazakh) is a straight form of the Cyrillic letter У. It is used to represent the close front rounded vowel /y/. Though the letter resembles the Latin letter Y in its uppercase form, the two should not be confused. ... Ghayn is also a spelling for the Arabic letter ghain. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The Cyrillic letter N descender or Ng (in Kazakh) (Ò¢, Ò£) is an Н with a descender. ... Ò˜ is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. ... is a Cyrillic alphabet used for the Bashkir language. ... He (Òº,Ò») /h/ is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Bashkir, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kildin Sami, Sakha, Tatar, and Yakut. ...

Башҡорт әлифбаһы
Аа (а) [a] Бб (бэ) [b] Вв (вэ) [v]
Гг (гэ) [g] Ғғ (ғы) [ɣ] Дд (дэ) [d]
Ҙҙ (ҙэ) [ð] Ее (йе) [e], [je] Ёё (йо) [jo]
Жж (жэ) [ʒ] Зз (зэ) [z] Ии (и) [i]
Йй (ҡыҫҡа и) [j] Кк (ка) [k] Ҡҡ (ҡы) [q]
Лл (эль) [l] Мм (эм) [m] Нн (эн) [n]
Ңң (эң) [ŋ] Оо (о) [o] Өө (ө) [ø]
Пп (пэ) [p] Рр (эр) [r] Сс (эс) [s]
Ҫҫ (ҫэ) [θ] Тт (тэ) [t] Уу (у) [u]
Үү (ү) [y] Фф (эф) [f] Хх (ха) [x]
Һһ (һа) [h] Цц (цэ) [ʦ] Чч (чэ) [ʧ]
Шш (ша) [ʃ] Щщ (ща) [ɕ] Ъъ (ҡатылыҡ билдәһе) [ʔ]
Ыы (ы) [ɯ] Ьь (йомшаҡлыҡ билдәһе) [ʲ] Ээ (э) [e]
Әә (ә) [æ] Юю (йу) [ju] Яя (йа) [ja]

See also

  • Swadesh list of Bashkir words

External links (in Bashkir)

Wikipedia
Bashkir language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Swadesh list in Bashkir
  • "Bashinform" news agency
  • "Bashkortostan" newspaper
  • Site on the 450th anniversary of Bashkortostan's joining Russia
  • Ufa city administration's site
  • "Ural batyr" epos
  • Bashkir folk songs' texts
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Altaic languages
Turkic languagesMongolic languagesTungusic languagesJaponic languages*Korean language*
Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not generally recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. A hypothetical language family that would include both the Japonic languages and Korean is sometimes referred to as the Buyeo language family.
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Turkic languages
Bulgar Bulgar† | Chuvash | Hunnic† | Khazar†
Uyghur Old Turkic† | Aini²| Chagatay† | Ili Turki | Lop | Uyghur | Uzbek
Kypchak Baraba | Bashkir | Crimean Tatar¹ | Cuman† | Karachay-Balkar | Karaim | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kipchak† | Krymchak | Kumyk | Nogai | Tatar | Urum¹ | Altay | Kyrgyz
Oghuz Afshar | Azerbaijani | Crimean Tatar¹ | Gagauz | Khorasani Turkish | Ottoman Turkish† | Pecheneg† | Qashqai | Salar | Turkish | Turkmen | Urum¹
Khalaj Khalaj
Northeastern Chulym | Dolgan | Fuyü Gïrgïs | Khakas | Northern Altay | Shor | Tofa | Tuvan | Western Yugur | Sakha / Yakut
Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, ³Disputed, †Extinct

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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bashkir language (346 words)
Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, as well as in neighboring Tatarstan and Udmurtia.
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.
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.
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