Tatar | |
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татар теле | |
Native to | Russia, other post-Soviet states |
Ethnicity | Tatars |
Native speakers | 6.5 million (2002)[1] |
Cyrillic | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Tatarstan (Russia) |
Regulated by | Institute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | tt |
ISO 639-2 | tat |
ISO 639-3 | tat |
The Tatar language is a Turkic language that is spoken by the Tatar people, and is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.