Bashkir (/ˈbɑːʃkɪər, ˈbæʃ-/; Bashkir: Башҡортса Bashqortsa, Башҡорт теле Bashqort tele,[2] [bɑʃˈqort tɘˈlɘ] (listen)) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by approximately 1.4 million native speakers in Russia, as well as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Estonia and other neighboring post-Soviet states, and among the Bashkir diaspora. It has three dialect groups: Southern, Eastern and Northwestern.
Bashkir | |
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Башҡортса, Башҡорт теле | |
Pronunciation | [bɑʃˈqort tɘˈlɘ] (listen) |
Native to | Bashkortostan (Russian Federation) |
Region | Volga, Ural region |
Ethnicity | Bashkirs |
Native speakers | 1.4 million (2010 census)[1] |
Language family | Turkic
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Early form | Volga Turki
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Writing system | Cyrillic (Bashkir alphabet) |
Official status | |
Official language in | Bashkortostan (Russia) |
Regulated by | Institute of history, language and literature of the Ufa Federal research center the RAS |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ba |
ISO 639-2 | bak |
ISO 639-3 | bak |
Glottolog | bash1264 |
Linguasphere | 44-AAB-bg |
Geographic distribution of Bashkir language in the Russian Empire according to 1897 census | |
Bashkir is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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Speakers of Bashkir mostly live in the republic of Bashkortostan (a republic within the Russian Federation). Many speakers also live in Tatarstan, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Kurgan Oblasts and other regions of Russia. Minor Bashkir groups also live in Kazakhstan and other countries.
Bashkir together with Tatar belongs to the Bulgaric (Russian: кыпчакско-булгарская) subgroups of the Kipchak languages. They share the same vocalism and the vowel shifts (see below) that make both languages stand apart from most other Kipchak and Oghuz Turkic languages.
However, Bashkir differs from Tatar in several important ways:
The Bashkir orthography is more explicit. /q/ and /ʁ/ are written with their own letters Ҡ ҡ and Ғ ғ, whereas in Tatar they are treated as positional allophones of /k/ and /ɡ/, written К к and Г г.
Labial vowel harmony in Bashkir is written explicitly, e.g. Tatar тормышым tormïshïm and Bashkir тормошом tormoshom, both pronounced [tormoˈʃom], meaning "my life".
After the adoption of Islam, which began in the 10th century and lasted for several centuries, the Bashkirs began to use Turki as a written language. Turki was written in a variant of the Arabic script.
In 1923, a writing system based on the Arabic script was specifically created for the Bashkir language. At the same time, the Bashkir literary language was created, moving away from the older written Turkic influences. At first, it used a modified Arabic alphabet. In 1930 it was replaced with the Unified Turkic Latin Alphabet, which was in turn replaced with an adapted Cyrillic alphabet in 1939.
The modern alphabet used by Bashkir is based on the Russian alphabet, with the addition of the following letters: Ә ә /æ/, Ө ө /ø/, Ү ү [y], Ғ ғ /ʁ/, Ҡ ҡ /q/, Ң ң /ŋ/, Ҙ ҙ /ð/, Ҫ ҫ /θ/, Һ һ /h/.
А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Ғ ғ | Д д | Ҙ ҙ | Е е | Ё ё |
Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Ҡ ҡ | Л л | М м | Н н |
Ң ң | О о | Ө ө | П п | Р р | С с | Ҫ ҫ | Т т | У у |
Ү ү | Ф ф | Х х | Һ һ | Ц ц | Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ | Ъ ъ |
Ы ы | Ь ь | Э э | Ә ә | Ю ю | Я я |
Cyrillic version | Pronunciation | Notes |
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Аа | [ɑ̜], [ä] | "A" is usually pronounced as [ɑ̜] in all syllables except last, in last syllable it is pronounced as [ä]. |
Бб | [b] | |
Вв | [v], [w] | [v] in Russian loanwords, [w] in Arabic and Persian loanwords. |
Ғғ | [ɣ˗] | |
Дд | [d] | |
Ҙҙ | [ð] | In eastern dialect and some of northern subdialects it is an allophone of [d]. |
Ее | [jɪ̞], [ɪ̞], [je̞], [e̞] | The letter is iotated in beginning of a word, after a vowel or after a soft or hard sign. |
Ёё | [jo] | Only used in Russian loanwords. |
Жж | [ʐ̟] | Only occurs in loanwords. |
Зз | [z] | |
Ии | [i] | |
Йй | [j] | In west subdialects of northwestern dialect and in a few subdialects of the eastern dialect it is pronounced as [ʑ] at word-initial position. In most other dialects, except the literary standard and southeastern subdialects, it is closer to [ʝ]. |
Кк | [k] | |
Ҡҡ | [q] | |
Лл | [ɭ̺], [ɫ] | In front vowel contexts occurs as apical [ɭ̺], in back vowel contexts occurs as [ɫ]. |
Мм | [m] | |
Нн | [n] | |
Ңң | [ŋ] | |
Оо | [ʊ̞], [o] | |
Өө | [ø] | |
Пп | [p] | |
Рр | [r] | |
Сс | [s] | |
Ҫҫ | [θ] | |
Тт | [t] | |
Уу | [u], [w] | |
Үү | [y], [w] | |
Фф | [f] | |
Хх | [χ] | |
Һһ | [h] | |
Цц | [ts] | |
Чч | [tɕ] | |
Шш | [ʂ] | |
Щщ | [ɕɕ] | |
Ъъ | [-] | |
Ыы | [ɯ], [ɨ] | |
Ьь | [ʲ] | |
Ээ | [ɪ̞], [e] | |
Әә | [æ] | |
Юю | [ju] | |
Яя | [jɑ], [ja] |
Bashkir has nine native vowels, and three or four loaned vowels (mainly in Russian loanwords).[3]
Phonetically, the native vowels are approximately thus (with the Cyrillic letter followed by the usual Latin romanization in angle brackets):
Front | Back | |||
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Spread | Rounded | Spread | Rounded | |
Close | и ⟨i⟩ [i] |
ү ⟨ü⟩ [y~ʉ] |
у ⟨u⟩ [u] | |
Mid | э, е ⟨e⟩ [ĕ~ɘ̆] |
ө ⟨ö⟩ [ø~ɵ] |
ы ⟨y⟩ [ɤ̆~ʌ̆] |
о ⟨o⟩ [o] |
Open | ә ⟨ä⟩ [æ~a] |
а ⟨a⟩ [ɑ] |
In Russian loans there are also [ɨ], [ɛ], [ɔ] and [ä], written the same as the native vowels: ы, е/э, о, а respectively.[3]
The mid vowels may be transcribed as lowered near-high [ɪ̞, ʏ̞, ɯ̞, ʊ̞], and the close front or close central rounded vowel [y~ʉ] may be transcribed as near-close near-front [ʏ].
Historically, the Old Turkic mid vowels have raised from mid to high, whereas the Old Turkic high vowels have become the Bashkir reduced mid series. (The same shifts have also happened in Tatar.)[4]
Vowel | Old Turkic | Tatar | Bashkir | Gloss |
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*e | *et | it | it | 'meat' |
*ö | *söz | süz | hüdh [hyð] | 'word' |
*o | *sol | sul | hul | 'left' |
*i | *it | et | et | 'dog' |
*ï | *qyz | qëz [qɤ̆z] | qëź [qɤ̆θ] | 'girl' |
*u | *qum | qom | qom | 'sand' |
*ü | *kül | köl | köl | 'ash' |
Labial | Labio- velar |
Dental | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Nasals | м ⟨m⟩ /m/ |
н ⟨n⟩ /n/ |
ң ⟨ng⟩ /ŋ/ |
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Plosives | Voiceless | п ⟨p⟩ /p/ |
т ⟨t⟩ /t/ |
к ⟨k⟩ /c/ |
к ⟨k⟩ /k/* |
ҡ ⟨q⟩ /q/ |
ь/ъ ⟨’⟩ /ʔ/* | ||
Voiced | б ⟨b⟩ /b/ |
д ⟨d⟩ /d/ |
г ⟨g⟩ /ɟ/ |
г ⟨g⟩ /ɡ/* |
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Affricates | Voiceless | ц ⟨ts⟩ /ts/* |
ч ⟨ç⟩ /tɕ/* |
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Fricatives | Voiceless | ф ⟨f⟩ /f/* |
ҫ ⟨ś⟩ /θ/ |
х ⟨kh⟩ /χ/ |
һ ⟨h⟩ /h/ | ||||
Voiced | в ⟨v⟩ /v/* |
ҙ ⟨ź⟩ /ð/ |
ғ ⟨gh⟩ /ʁ/ |
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Sibilants | Voiceless | с ⟨s⟩ /s/ |
ш ⟨sh⟩ /ʃ/ |
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Voiced | з ⟨z⟩ /z/ |
ж ⟨zh⟩ /ʒ/ |
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Trill | р ⟨r⟩ /r/ |
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Approximants | у/ү/в ⟨w⟩ /w~ɥ/ |
л ⟨l⟩ /l/ |
й ⟨y⟩ /j/ |
A member of the Turkic language family, Bashkir is an agglutinative, SOV language.[3][5] A large part of the Bashkir vocabulary has Turkic roots; and there are many loan words in Bashkir from Russian, Arabic and Persian sources.
Case | father | mother | child | dog | cat | |
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Singular | Nominative | атай atay | әсәй äsäy | бала bala | эт et | бесәй besäy |
Genitive | атайҙың ataydhïng | әсәйҙең äsäydheng | баланың balanïng | эттең etteng | бесәйҙең besäydheng | |
Dative | атайға ataygha | әсәйгә äsäygä | балаға balagha | эткә etkä | бесәйгә besäygä | |
Accusative | атайҙы ataydhï | әсәйҙе äsäydhe | баланы balanï | этте ette | бесәйҙе besäydhe | |
Locative | атайҙа ataydha | әсәйҙә äsäydhä | балала balala | эттә että | бесәйҙә besäydhä | |
Ablative | атайҙан ataydhan | әсәйҙән äsäydhän | баланан balanan | эттән ettän | бесәйҙән besäydhän | |
Plural | Nominative | атайҙар ataydhar | әсәйҙәр äsäydhär | балалар balalar | эттәр ettär | бесәйҙәр besäydhär |
Genitive | атайҙарҙың ataydhardhıng | әсәйҙәрҙең äsäydhärdheng | балаларҙың balalardhïng | эттәрҙең ettärdheng | бесәйҙәрҙең besäydhärdheng | |
Dative | атайҙарға ataydhargha | әсәйҙәргә äsäydhärgä | балаларға balalargha | эттәргә ettärgä | бесәйҙәргә besäydhärgä | |
Accusative | атайҙарҙы ataydhardhï | әсәйҙәрҙе äsäydhärdhe | балаларҙы balalardhï | эттәрҙе ettärdhe | бесәйҙәрҙе besäydhärdhe | |
Locative | атайҙарҙа ataydhardha | әсәйҙәрҙә äsäydhärdhä | балаларҙа balalardha | эттәрҙә ettärdhä | бесәйҙәрҙә besäydhärdhä | |
Ablative | атайҙарҙан ataydhardhan | әсәйҙәрҙән äsäydhärdhän | балаларҙан balalardhan | эттәрҙән ettärdhän | бесәйҙәрҙән besäydhärdhän | |
Interrogative pronouns | Personal pronouns | ||||||||
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Case | who | what | Singular | Plural | |||||
I | you (thou) | he, she, it | we | you | they | ||||
Nominative | кем kem | нимә nimä | мин min | һин hin | ул ul | беҙ bedh | һеҙ hedh | улар ular | |
Genitive | кемдең kemdeng | нимәнең nimäneng | минең mineng | һинең hineng | уның unyng | беҙҙең bedhdheng | һеҙҙең hedhdheng | уларҙың ulardhïng | |
Dative | кемгә kemgä | нимәгә nimägä | миңә mingä | һиңә hingä | уға ugha | беҙгә bedhgä | һеҙгә hedhgä | уларға ulargha | |
Accusative | кемде kemde | нимәне nimäne | мине mine | һине hine | уны unı | беҙҙе bedhdhe | һеҙҙе hedhdhe | уларҙы ulardhï | |
Locative | кемдә kemdä | нимәлә nimälä | миндә mindä | һиндә hindä | унда unda | беҙҙә bedhdhä | һеҙҙә hedhdhä | уларҙа ulardha | |
Ablative | кемдән kemdän | нимәнән nimänän | минән minän | һинән hinän | унан unan | беҙҙән bedhdhän | һеҙҙән hedhdhän | уларҙан ulardhan | |
Case | Singular | Plural | ||||||
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this | that | these | those | |||||
Nominative | был byl | ошо osho | шул shul | теге tege | былар bylar | ошолар osholar | шулар shular | тегеләр tegelär |
Genitive | бының bynyng | ошоноң oshonong | шуның shunyng | тегенең tegeneng | быларҙың bylardhıng | ошоларҙың osholardhïng | шуларҙың shulardhïng | тегеләрҙең tegelärdheng |
Dative | быға bygha | ошоға oshogha | шуға shugha | тегегә tegegä | быларға bylargha | ошоларға osholargha | шуларға shulargha | тегеләргә tegelärgä |
Accusative | быны byny | ошоно oshona | шуны shuny | тегене tegene | быларҙы bylardhy | ошоларҙы osholardhy | шуларҙы shulardhy | тегеләрҙе tegelärdhe |
Locative | бында bynda | ошонда oshonda | шунда shunda | тегендә tegenda | быларҙа bylardha | ошоларҙа osholardha | шуларҙа shulardha | тегеләрҙә tegelärdhä |
Ablative | бынан bynan | ошонан oshonan | шунан shunan | тегенән tegenän | быларҙан bylardhan | ошоларҙан osholardhan | шуларҙан shulardhan | тегеләрҙән tegelärdhän |
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1 In Russia, the Cyrillic alphabet is officially supported. 2 For other, non-Cyrillic alphabets, separate federal laws are required.
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