Tatar Language
Tatar dialects, Tatar alphabet, Tatar orthography, Tatar language history and sources
Tatar language
Tatar: It is spoken in the Republic of Tatarstan.
Number of Tatar Speakers: Over five million Volga Tatars.
Tatar Speakers: Over seven million Tatar speakers all over the world, including Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Language Classification: Crimean Tatar is a Kipchak language from the Western Turkic Altaic language group. The Tatar language was influenced by Oguz of the Ottoman Turkish.
Tatar Dialects: Kipchak.
Tatar Alphabet: The Cyrillic alphabet had Russian alphabet with six extra letters and the new Roman alphabet has nine extra letters.
Tatar Orthography: The writing script started with Arabic, then, Cyrillic, and Roman after 2000. The phonetics and lexicon of the literary language are close to the Central dialect, and the morphology to the Western dialect.
Tatar Language History: The oldest surviving Tatar texts date back to the 13th century. The Tatars first appear in Russian history in the 13th century as the Mongols.
Tatar Language Enriched by: Turkish, Russian, and Bulgarian.
Tatar Standardization Efforts: The Kipchak dialect was subject to standardization.
Unique Features of Tatar: Tatars had to learn Bulgarian and Turkish. Now, speaking Tatar language is associated with the national identity and ethnic differentiation. The Cyrillic Tatar encoding accepted by the government of Tatarstan in 1996.
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