Turkic · ISO 639-3 tat · tt
Tatar Language татар теле
Tatar is a Turkic language spoken by about 5.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Tatar is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tatar
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Kipchak-Turkestan
- Kipchak
- Northwest Kipchak
- North Kipchak
- Bashkiric
- Tatar
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Tatar language
Tatar (татар теле) is spoken by about 5.2 million people, which makes it the 182nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) (5.2 million) and ahead of Tok Pisin (5.2 million). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Bashkiric group within the Kipchak-Turkestan branch.
Where is Tatar spoken?
Tatar is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (3.4 million).
Tatar is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Tatar is written in the Cyrillic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Bashkir, Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Northern Uzbek and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 tt, ISO 639-3 tat.
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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.