Bashkir language - one of the Turkic languages. Spoken in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Kurgan and Sverdlovsk regions. The number of the Bashkirs in Russia is 1 million 345,3 thousand. 72,8 % of them regard Bashkir as their mother tongue, 10,1 % Russian. 227,8 thousand Bashkirs regard Tatar as their mother tongue.

Until the beginning of the 20th century the Bashkirs used a local variety of the Central Asian Turkic written language and later adopted the Tatar literary language. The Bashkir literary language was created after 1917. Arabic script was used until 1928. In 1929 the literary language was switched into the Latin and in 1939 into the Cyrillic script.

General information on the Bashkir language

• Bashkir language - An article in the Bashkortostan encyclopedia (in Russian)

Education and science

• Faculty of Bashkir philology and journalism of the Bashkir state university (brief information in Russian)
• Institute of history, language and literature of the Bashkortostan academy of sciences
• Russian-Bashkir dictionary of linguistic terminology

Language technology

• Bashkir fonts and keyboards

Mass media

• Vatandash (Compatriot) - Socio-political, scientific and art magazine in Bashkir, English and Russian. Bashkir materials in .pdf format.
• Radio Liberty Tatar-Bashkir service - Daily "Real Audio" broadcasts on the Internet.

Sites in the Bashkir language

• Bashnet
• Idel-Ural - Web catalogue of the Volga-Ural region
• Ìeskeu bashkorttari sayti - Bashkirs in Moscow
• Sesen
• Telhez
• Yangantau resort - Information in Bashkir, English and Russian
• Yiyin - Poetry, songs, proverbs, conference
• Yort