Tatar
Turkic language spoken by Tatars
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Summary
Tatar is a modern language[1]. Tatar draws 5,280 Wikipedia views per month (modern language category, ranking #9 of 43).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3], Turkey[4], Soviet Union[5], Poland[6], Finland[7], Romania[8], People's Republic of China[9], Australia[10], United States[11]
- Instance of: natural language[12]
- Maintained by: Commission for the Preservation and Strengthening of Tatar language use under the auspices of the Republic of Tatarstan President[13]
- Subclass of: Kipchak–Bulgar[14], Turkic[15]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[16], Yañalif[17]
- Commons category: Tatar language[18]
- Wikimedia language code: tt[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tatar language[20]
- Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=tat[21]
- Language regulatory body: Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Galimcan İbrahimov Institute of Language, Literature, and Art[22]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,200,000[23], 5,427,318[24]
- Topic has template: Q33125617[25]
- Native label: татар теле[26]
- Short name: татарский[27], татарська[28], tatarca[29], тæтæйраг[30], Tatuaroin kieli[31]
- Different from: Crimean Tatar[32]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[33]
- Indigenous to: Bashkortostan[34], Nizhny Novgorod Oblast[35], Tatarstan[36], Sverdlovsk Oblast[37], Ulyanovsk Oblast[38], Chelyabinsk Oblast[39], Moscow[40], Tyumen Oblast[41], Orenburg Oblast[42], Perm Krai[43], Samara Oblast[44], Udmurtia[45]
- Has list: list of university and college programs in Tatar[46], Tatar Radios[47], Q20591491[48], Tatar dictionaries[49], list of Tatar language print media[50]
- Female form of label: la langue tatare[51]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TAT[52]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q13202830[53], Q90821587[54]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[55]
Why It Matters
Tatar has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] Tatar is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]