Tatar

Dialects: Eastern Tatar, Middle Tatar (Kazan), Western Tatar (Misher). Eastern Tatar is divided into 3: Tobol-Irtysh, Baraba, and Tom. Tobol-Irtysh is divided into 5: Tyumen, Tobol, Zabolotny, Tevriz, and Tara (Tumasheva). Mixed dialects are: Astrakhan, Kasimov, Tepter, and Ural (Poppe). 43,000 Astrakhan (L1 speakers) have shifted to the Middle dialect. Kasim (5,000 L1 speakers) is between Middle and Western Tatar. Tepter (300,000 L1 speakers) is reportedly between the Tatar and Bashkort , languages.

Demographics: 4,280,000 in Russian Federation (2010 census). Population may include L2 speakers. Population total all countries: 5,406,110. Ethnic population: 5,310,000 (2010 census).

Language Use: Also used by the Karatai (different from Karata [kpt]), ethnically Erzya people who speak Tatar. All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use Russian [rus]. Used as L2 by Bashkort [bak].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: High. Taught in primary schools. Taught in secondary schools and university. Magazines. Newspapers. New media. Radio programs. TV. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1820–2005.

Typology: SOV.

Writing System: Cyrillic, Latin

Nation of Origin: Russian Federation

Other Comments: Different from Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish ,). Muslim (Sunni), Christian.