Bashkir language

Bashkir
башҡорт теле (башҡортса) başqort tele (başqortsa) باشقۇرت تىُلىُ (باشقۇرتسا) باشقرد تلی (باشقردسا)
Bashkir in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts
Pronunciation	[bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] ⓘ
Native to	Bashkortostan, Russia
Region	Volga, Ural
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Bulgar Bashkir
Early form	Volga Turki
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic (Bashkir alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Bashkortostan (Russia)
Regulated by	Institute of history, language and literature of the Ufa Federal research center the RAS
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ba
ISO 639-2	bak
ISO 639-3	bak
Glottolog	bash1264
Linguasphere	44-AAB-bg
Bashkir is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Bashkir (UK: /bæʃˈkɪər/ bash-KEER,^[1] US: /bɑːʃˈkɪər/ bahsh-KEER)^[2] or Bashkort^[3] (Bashkir: башҡорт теле, romanized: başqort tele, [bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] ^ⓘ) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by approximately 1.6 million^[4][5] native speakers in Russia, as well as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Estonia and other neighboring post-Soviet states, and among the Bashkir diaspora. It has three dialect groups: Southern, Eastern and Northwestern.