Bats, or Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, is the language of a the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975.

There is only one dialect. It exists only as a spoken language, as the Bats people use Georgian as their written language. The language is not mutually intelligible with either Chechen or Ingush, the other two members of the Nakh family.

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	The Tsova-Tushs ( the Batsbs) (16380 words) The practical needs of the knowledge of the mentioned language in the XIX-XX centuries, which was caused by the farming-economical links, forced both the Tsova-Tushs (the Batsbs) and the Georgian-speaking Tushs to make the decision about sending their sons to the families of their Azerian Qonaghs (sworn brothers) for a year. The main argument was the similarity of the Tsova-Tushs (Batsbs) language with the Vainakh languages. According to the Ingush narratives, the reason of migration of the Tsova-Tushs (Batsbs) was the lack of land. List of Languages (3278 words) It is the principal language of the Baloch of Balochistan, a region in western Pakistan, eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan. The language is a sub-dialect of Ladakhi and an archaic dialect of the Tibetan language. The language spoken by the present-day Volga Tatars represents a mixture of Bolgar and Kypchak.
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