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| Tatar | |
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| татар теле tatar tele تاتار تئلئ • تاتار تلی | |
 Tatar in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts | |
| Region | Northern Eurasia |
| Ethnicity | Tatars |
| Speakers | L1: 4 million (2020)[1] L2: 810,000 (2020)[1] |
Turkic
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Early form | |
| Dialects |
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| Tatar alphabet (Cyrillic, Latin, formerly Arabic) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Tatarstan (Russia) |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Institute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | tt |
| ISO 639-2 | tat |
| ISO 639-3 | tat |
| Glottolog | tata1255 |
| Linguasphere | 44-AAB-be |
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 Tatar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [4] | |
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.
- ^ a b Tatar at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Tatar in Russian Federation | UNESCO WAL".
- ^ "Tatar". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
