The tatar is a language, pertaining to the group of the Turkish Langues of the family of the altaïques Langues.

Geographical extension

He is spoken in Europe about the East and Central Asia.

Its speakers are called Tatars the Volga, or Tatars of Kazan, although since the catch of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible, they largely dispersed in the Russian Empire, in particular in the steppes of the south of the the Ural, in Siberia, to the Turkestan, and somewhat in Lithuania.

This language comprises nowadays several Dialecte S, in particular the mishar and the “tatar of Siberia”, which remain very close to the literary language.

Today, the tatar is, as well as the Russian , the official language of the republic of the Tatarstan, pertaining to the Federation of Russia.

Writing

Under the influence of the Islam, which was the official religion of the Khanat de Kazan, the language tatare was initially transcribed by an adaptation of the Arab writing, which lends itself to it rather badly because of importance in this language of the vocalic component . In 1924, it was thus decided to officially replace it by the Yañalif, Latin alphabet near to the Turkish Alphabet. In May 1939, a decree with centralizing aiming imposes in its turn the passage to a writing Cyrillique (enough awkwardly conceived because excessively copied on the Russian alternative ), nowadays still into force, and in which are the large majority of the sources, in spite of certain recent attempts to return again to a renewed Latin C-W communication.

See also the article on the Turkish Language.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Tatar - Ethnologist
  • Tatar - Joshua project

Simple: Tatar language

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