Tatar language

Tatar
Tatar
татар теле; tatar tele; تاتار تئلئ‎ • تاتار تلی‎
	Tatar in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts
Region	Volga region
Ethnicity	Volga Tatars, Qaratays
Speakers	L1: 4 million (2020); L2: 810,000 (2020)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Bulgar Tatar; ; ; ;
Early form	Volga Türki
Dialects	Mishar Tatar; Nagaibak;
Writing system	Tatar alphabet (Cyrillic, Latin, formerly Arabic)
Official status
Official language in	Tatarstan (Russia)
Recognised minority; language in	China; Poland;
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
	Tatar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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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. It should not be confused with Crimean Tatar or Siberian Tatar, which are closely related but belong to different subgroups of the Kipchak languages.

^ ^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.

Tatar
татар теле tatar tele تاتار تئلئ‎ • تاتار تلی‎
Tatar in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts
Region	Volga region
Ethnicity	Volga Tatars, Qaratays
Speakers	L1: 4 million (2020)^[1] L2: 810,000 (2020)^[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Bulgar Tatar
Early form	Volga Türki
Dialects	Mishar Tatar Nagaibak
Writing system	Tatar alphabet (Cyrillic, Latin, formerly Arabic)
Official status
Official language in	Tatarstan (Russia)
Recognised minority language in	China^[2] Poland^[3]
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`

Tatar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ^[4]
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.