Bashkir language

Bashkir
башҡорт теле (башҡортса) bashqort tele (bashqortsa) باشقۇرت تئلئ • باشقرد تلی
Bashkir in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts
Pronunciation	[bɑʂ'qʊ̞ɾt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] ⓘ
Native to	Bashkortostan (Russian Federation)
Region	Volga, Ural region
Ethnicity	Bashkirs
Native speakers	1.2 million (2020 census)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Bulgar Bashkir
Early form	Volga Turki
Writing system	Cyrillic (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
Geographic distribution of Bashkir language in the Russian Empire according to 1897 census
Bashkir is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Bashkir or Bashkort^[2] (UK: /bæʃˈkɪər/,^[3] US: /bɑːʃˈkɪər/;^[4] Bashkir: Башҡорт теле, romanized: Bashqort tele, [bɑʂ'qʊ̞ɾt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞] ^ⓘ[5]) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by 1.09 million 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.^[1]