Tatar language

Tatar
татар теле
tatar tele
تاتار تئلئ‎ • تاتار تلی
Tatar in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts
RegionNorthern Eurasia
EthnicityTatars
SpeakersL1: 4 million (2020)[1]
L2: 810,000 (2020)[1]
Turkic
Early form
Dialects
Tatar alphabet (Cyrillic, Latin, formerly Arabic)
Official status
Official language in
Tatarstan (Russia)
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated byInstitute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan
Language codes
ISO 639-1tt
ISO 639-2tat
ISO 639-3tat
Glottologtata1255
Linguasphere44-AAB-be
Tatar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Tatar book written in the Arabic script entitled Ancient Bulgars.

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.

  1. ^ a b Tatar at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Ethnic Groups and Religious department, Fujian Provincial Government (13 September 2022). "少数民族的语言文字有哪些?". fujian.gov.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  3. ^ "ACT of 6 January 2005 on national and ethnic minorities and on the regional languages" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Tatar in Russian Federation | UNESCO WAL".
  5. ^ "Tatar". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.