baTechnical information about ISO 639 language code ba
The table below provides technical details for the Bashkir language, designated by the ba code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Bashkir Native Башҡорт теле |
| Family | Turkic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | North-WesternSouthernEastern |
| Related languages | TatarKazakhKyrgyzNogai |
| Key facts | Belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic language familyWritten Bashkir now uses a Cyrillic alphabet with nine extra letters such as ә, ө, ү and ҡHistorically shifted from Arabic script to Latin (1928-1940) before adopting CyrillicExhibits strict vowel harmony and highly agglutinative morphologyRich oral poetry tradition includes the epic Ural-Batyr |
| Sample phrase | Сәләм, хәлдәр нисек? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Bashkir belongs to the Turkic family of languages and is officially used in Bashkortostan, Russia. It is written using the Cyrillic script in the Bashkir alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 1.4 million Bashkir speakers worldwide.
Speakers
1.3M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Bashkir speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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