Turkic · ISO 639-3 bak · ba
Bashkir Language Башҡортса
Bashkir is a Turkic language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Bashkir is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Bashkir
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Kipchak-Turkestan
- Kipchak
- Northwest Kipchak
- North Kipchak
- Bashkiric
- Bashkir
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Bashkir language
Bashkir (Башҡортса) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 330th most spoken language in the world — just behind Amdo Tibetan (1.8 million) and ahead of Eastern Balochi (1.8 million). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Bashkiric group within the Kipchak-Turkestan branch.
Where is Bashkir spoken?
Bashkir is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (1.1 million).
Bashkir is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Bashkir is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tatar, Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Northern Uzbek and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 ba, ISO 639-3 bak.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.