Tatar language
| 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) |
Turkic
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Early form | |
| Dialects | |
| Tatar alphabet (Cyrillic, Latin, formerly Arabic) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Tatarstan (Russia) |
Recognised minority language in | |
| 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 | |
Tatar (/ˈtɑːtər/ TAH-tər; Tatar: татар теле, romanized: tatar tele or татарча, romanized: 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.