Bashkir/Bashkort (Башҡорт теле / Başqort tele)

Bashkir is a member of the Kypchak-Bolgar group of the Turkic languages. It is spoken in the southwest of Russian Federation, mainly in the Republic of Bashkortostan, and also in Tatarstan, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Kurgan provinces. In 2010 there were about 1.1 million speakers of Bashkir in Russia, and another 100,000 in Kazakhstan and a number of other countries. Bashkir has been a statutory provincial language in the Bashkortostan Republic since 1925.

There are three groups of Bashkir dialects: southern, eastern and northwestern. The language is also known as Bashkort, Bashqort or Basquort.

Bashkir first appeared in writing in a Runic alphabet during the 9th century AD. It was written with the Arabic alphabet between the 10th century and 1928, when it was replaced by the Latin alphabet, which itself was replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in 1940.

Runic alphabet for Bashkir

Runic alphabet for Bashkir

Arabic alphabet for Bashkir

Arabic alphabet for Bashkir

Source: https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/Башҡорт_алфавиты

Cyrillic alphabet for Bashkir (башҡорт әлифбаһы)

Cyrillic alphabet for Bashkir

The letters дж, ль, ц, ч, щ and ь are used in Russian loanwords and names.

Latin alphabet for Bashkir (Başḳort latın älifbahı)

Latin alphabet for Bashkir

Download alphabet charts for Bashkir (Excel)

Details provided by Wolfram Siegel, Michael Peter Füstumum, 이윤호 and Haqmar

Sample text in Bashkir (Cyrillic alphabet)

Барлыҡ кешеләр ирекле, дәрәжәләре һәм хоҡуҡтары тигеҙ булып тыуалар. Улар аҡыл һәм выждан эйәһе һәм бер-береһенә ҡарата ҡәрҙәшлек рухында хәрәкәт итергә тейештәр.

Sample text in Bashkir (Latin alphabet)

Barlıq keşelär irekle, däräjäläre häm xoquqtarı tiñ bulıp tıualar. Ular aqıl häm vıjdan eyähe häm ber-berehenä qarata qärźäşlek ruxında xäräkät itergä teyeştär.

Translation by Haqmar

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Sample video in Bashkir

Information about Bashkir | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about the Bashkir language
http://members.lycos.nl/bashkort/tele/bashlaung.htm
http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_bashkir.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkir_language
http://tel.bashqort.com

Bashkir folk songs
http://yir.atspace.com

Turkic languages

Altay, Äynu, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chagatai, Chelkan, Chulym, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dolgan, Fuyu Kyrgyz, Gagauz, Ili Turki, Karachay-Balkar, Karaim, Karakalpak, Karamanli Turkish, Kazakh, Khakas, Khalaj, Khorasani Turkic, Krymchak, Kumandy, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lop, Nogai, Old Turkic, Qashqai, Romanian Tatar, Salar, Shor, Siberian Tatar, Soyot, Tatar, Teleut, Tofa, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Western Yugur, Yakut (Sakha)

Languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet

Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Akkala Sámi, Aleut, Altay, Alyutor, Andi, Archi, Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian, Avar, Azeri, Bagvalal, Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bezhta, Bosnian, Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chelkan, Chukchi, Chulym, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Daur, Dolgan, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Interslavic, Itelmen, Juhuri, Kabardian, Kaitag, Kalderash Romani, Kalmyk, Karaim, Karakalpak, Karata, Karelian, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khanty, Khinalug, Khorasani Turkic, Khwarshi, Kildin Sámi, Kili, Komi, Koryak, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumandy, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Ludic, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nanai, Negidal, Nenets, Nganasan, Nivkh, Nogai, Old Church Slavonic, Oroch, Orok, Ossetian, Pontic Greek, Romanian, Rushani, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Selkup, Serbian, Shor, Shughni, Siberian Tatar, Sirenik, Slovio, Soyot, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tat, Tatar, Teleut, Ter Sámi, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udege, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Ulch, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Votic, Wakhi, West Polesian, Xibe, Yaghnobi, Yakut, Yazghulami, Yukaghir (Northern / Tundra), Yukaghir (Southern / Kolyma), Yupik (Central Siberian)

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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