Editing Bashkir language (section)

{{Short description|Kipchak Turkic language}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Bashkir
| nativename       = {{lang|ba-cyrl|башҡорт теле (башҡортса)}}<br />{{lang|ba-latn|başqort tele (başqortsa)}}<br />{{lang|ba-arab|باشقۇرت تىُلىُ (باشقۇرتسا)}}<br>{{lang|ba-arab|باشقرد تلی (باشقردسا)}}
| image            = Bashkir in Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic scripts.png
| imagecaption     = Bashkir in Cyrillic, Latin, and Perso-Arabic scripts
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|ba|bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞||Ba-башҡорт теле.oga}}
| states           = [[Bashkortostan]], Russia
| region           = [[Volga region|Volga]], [[Ural (region)|Ural]]
| ethnicity        = 1.57 million [[Bashkirs]]<ref>https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx </ref> ([[2021 Russian census]])
| speakers         = {{sigfig|750,000|2}}<ref>https://celt.indiana.edu/portal/Bashkir/index.html#:~:text=Bashkir%20is%20a%20Turkic%20language,has%20approximately%20750%2C000%20native%20speakers.</ref>
| date             = 2020
| familycolor      = Altaic
| fam1             = [[Turkic languages|Turkic]]
| fam2             = [[Common Turkic languages|Common Turkic]]
| fam3             = [[Kipchak languages|Kipchak]]
| fam4             = Kipchak–[[Bulgar language|Bulgar]]
| ancestor         = [[Volga Turki]]
| nation           = {{flag|Bashkortostan}} (Russia)
| script           = [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]], [[Latin alphabet|Latin]], [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] ([[Bashkir alphabet]])
| agency           = [http://rihll.com/en/ Institute of history, language and literature of the Ufa Federal research center the RAS]
| iso1             = ba
| iso2             = bak
| iso3             = bak
| glotto           = bash1264
| glottorefname    = Bashkir
| lingua           = 44-AAB-bg
| notice           = IPA
| map              = Dialects of the Bashkir language.jpg
| mapcaption       = 
| map2             = Lang Status 80-VU.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Bashkir is classified as Vulnerable by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
| dia1             = Southern
| dia2             = Eastern
}}
'''Bashkir''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|b|æ|ʃ|ˈ|k|ɪə}} {{respell|bash-KEER}},<ref>{{cite book |last1=Longman |first1=J.C. |title=Longman Pronunciation Dictionary |date=2008 |publisher=Pearson Education ESL |isbn=978-1405881173 |edition=3}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|US|b|ɑː|ʃ|ˈ|k|ɪər}} {{respell|bahsh-KEER}})<ref>{{Dictionary.com|Bashkir}}</ref> or '''Bashkort'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moseley |first=Christopher |date=2010 |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentViewer.xhtml?v=2.1.196&id=p::usmarcdef_0000187026&file=/in/rest/annotationSVC/DownloadWatermarkedAttachment/attach_import_70c069f5-be69-478d-80ca-47a6ce68c154%3F_%3D187026eng.pdf&updateUrl=updateUrl8785&ark=/ark:/48223/pf0000187026/PDF/187026eng.pdf.multi&fullScreen=true&locale=en#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A230%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2Cnull%2Cnull%2C0%5D |page=42}}</ref> ({{langx|ba|башҡорт теле|link=no|translit=başqort tele}}, {{IPA|ba|bɑʂˈqʊ̞rt tɪ̞ˈlɪ̞||Ba-башҡорт теле.oga}}) is a [[Turkic languages|Turkic language]] belonging to the [[Kipchak languages|Kipchak]] branch. It is [[official language#Political alternatives|co-official]] with [[Russian language|Russian]] in [[Bashkortostan]]. Bashkir has approximately 750,000 native speakers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bashkir |url=https://celt.indiana.edu/portal/Bashkir/index.html#:~:text=Bashkir%20is%20a%20Turkic%20language,has%20approximately%20750,000%20native%20speakers. |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Center for Language Technology |language=en-US |quote=Bashkir has approximately 750,000 native speakers.}}</ref> It has two [[dialect]] groups: Southern and Eastern. Bashkir has native speakers in Russia, as well as in [[Ukraine]], [[Belarus]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Estonia]] and other neighboring [[post-Soviet states]], and among the [[Bashkirs|Bashkir]] diaspora.