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Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça) is a very ancient Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.
It is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan, and is also spoken in European part of Russia, Siberia as well as in China, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and all over Central AsiaCentral Asia is a region of Asia. Various definitions of its exact composition exist. Definitions Under one definition, Central Asia covers about 9,029,000 km2, or 21% of the continent. Under this definition Central Asia includes the following countries:.
With a few exceptions, the main features which distinguish the Altaic languages from Indo-European are as follows:
Kazan Tatar language's ancestors are the extinct BolgarBolgar (also Bolgar language of Volga Bolgars, was a Turkic language spoken by the people which now calls itself Kazan Tatars. Writing: perviously used Orkhon script, then since 922 Arabic script Turkic languages Tatarstan history. and Kipchak languages.
Other European (see also: Crimean Tatar), Caucasus, and West Siberian Tatar languages are very similar to the Kazan Tatar language and are mutually intelligible with it.
The literary Tatar language is based on the Kazan Tatar language's Middle (Tatarstan) dialect and the Old Tatar Language (Iske Tatar Tele). The Old Tatar language's ancestors are the Volga Bolgar language and Kipchak.
Kazan Tatar language is also native for 400,000 Bashkirs, especially those living in Ufa, and some thousands of Maris. Mordva's Qaratay group also speak Tatar. The Tatar language is an international communication language between Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Kazakhs, Maris, Mordvins, and Udmurts.
The Tatar language strongly influenced on most of the Caucasian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Finnic languages in the Volga River area.
tekst (text) -> [tekest] bank -> [banik] (not [bañk])
b -> [p], g ->[k], g -> [q] or [x], v ->[f] tabíb (doctor) -> [tabíp]
In Western (Misär) dialect Ç is prnounced as [tS], C as [dZ], [ts] sound also pronounced.
In Minzälä subdialect of Central Dialect [ð] is pronounced in some cases.
In come cases Y is pronounced as C before the consonate in all regions of Tatarstan.
In bilingually peoples' city slang differences between x and h, q and k, g and g, v and w is not so principial as it was earlier. This is harmful influence of Cyrillic alphabet.