View source for Bashkir Language (bak)


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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Basquort,Bashkir,Bashkort


<b>Description:</b>

The Bashkir language (Bashkir: Башҡорт теле Bašqort tele) is a Turkic language.
Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. Substantial number of the speakers also live in Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Samara and Kurgan Oblasts, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra, Tatarstan and Udmurtia. Large Bashkir minority groups also live in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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.
The modern Bashkir language, like the similar Tatar language, takes its roots from the Kypchak group of languages. Today the language has many dialects, some of them are similar to Tatar. In the past, Bashkirs used the Chagatay language as a written language. In the late 19th century it was replaced with Tatar, which was in use until 1923.
Both Chagatay and Tatar were written in a variant of the Arabic script.
In 1923, a writing system based on the Arabic script was specifically created for the Bashkir language. At the same time, a Bashkir literary language was created, moving away from the Tatar influences. At first, it used<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=371231 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Bashkir Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bak_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_bak_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Numbers:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bak_number-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_bak_number-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/russia Russia]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>ba</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-2 Code: </b></td><td>bak</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>bak</td></tr>

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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Altaic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Turkic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Western Turkic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Uralian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Bashkir Language]]</b>

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