Language code: ba

Technical 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

ba

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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.

Language presence globally

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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