BASHKIR (Russia, Asia)

Family
Idil- Ural-Turkish

Country
Russia, Asia

Language code
BXK

Continent
Asia

Alternate language names
BASQUORT

Dialect names
KUVAKAN (MOUNTAIN BASHKIR), YURMATY (STEPPE BASHKIR), BURZHAN (WESTERN BASHKIR)

Genetic affiliation
Altaic, Turkic, Western, Uralian

Geographical region
Baskir ASSR, between the Volga River and Ural Mountains, and beyond the Urals

Population
1,000,000 mother tongue speakers (67%) out of an ethnic population of 1,371,000 (1979 census). 370,000 ethnic Bashkir speak Tatar as mother tongue

Bilingual in
Tatar

Printings of whole books of Bible
1899-1902

Remarks
It has literary status based on the Kuvakan dialect. Cyrillic script. Close to Tatar

Subsistence type
Oil workers, agriculturalists

Religion
Sunni Muslim

Total speakers
1,000,000