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Tatar language

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Tatar language

 formerly Volga Tatar language

Turkic language with some eight million speakers. Its speakers include less than half the population of Tatarstan in Russia, with the remainder scattered in enclaves across eastern European Russian, Siberia, and the Central Asian republics. Tatar, like the closely related Bashkir language, is characterized by a remarkable series of vowel shifts that distinguish it (at least in its most characteristic varieties) from all other Turkic languages. It has numerous dialect distinctions; the conventional division is between a central group that includes the Tatar of most of Tatarstan and the literary language based on Kazan speech, a western group, and an eastern group. Crimean Tatar, belonging to the southwestern group of Turkic languages, and Chulym Tatar, belonging to the northeastern group, are not closely related to Tatar.



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The republic, whose President Mintimer Shaimiev was awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam two years ago by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, is now under pressure from Moscow over its use of the Tatar language and promotion of Tatar culture.
Winkler dates the end of Udmurt-Chuvash and the beginning of the Udmurt Tatar language contacts back to the 13th century, the time of Mongol invasion (p.
During the Soviet period, the problem of nationality and religion did not arise but today, the children of these "mixed" families "are stranded in between", as a schoolteacher at a Tatar language school explains: "They are neither Russians, nor Tatars; they have no nationality.
 
 
 
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