What is Bashkir language?
{{Infobox Language |name=Bashkir language |nativename=Баш{{unicode|ҡ}}орт теле ''{{lang|ba|Bašqort tele}}'' |states=[[Russia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Kazakhstan]] |speakers=more than 1,400,000 |familycolor=Altaic |fam1=[[Altaic languages|Altaic]] |fam2=[[Turkic languages|Turkic]] |fam3=[[Kypchak languages|Kypchak]] |fam4=Kypchak-Bolgar |nation=[[Bashkortostan]] |iso1=ba|iso2=bak|iso3=bak}} The '''Bashkir language''' (Native name: {{Audio|Ba-башҡорт теле.oga|''башҡорт теле''}} {{IPA|[bɑʃqɵrt tɨiɨ]}}) is a [[Turkic languages|Turkic language]]. Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the [[Russia]]n republic of [[Bashkortostan]]. A large number of speakers also live in [[Tatarstan]], [[Udmurtia]], [[Perm Krai]], [[Chelyabinsk Oblast|Chelyabinsk]], [[Orenburg Oblast|Orenburg]], [[Sverdlovsk Oblast|Sverdlovsk]], and [[Kurgan Oblast]]s. == Alphabet == Like other languages of Russia, Bashkir uses an [[alphabet]] made up of [[Cyrillic]] letters. The Bashkir alphabet has 42 [[letters]], made up of the 33 letters of the [[Russian language|Russian alphabet]] and 9 more letters for special Bashkir sounds. These 9 letters and their sounds are: *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/ {{Europe-stub}} {{Interwiki|code=ba}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Turkic languages]] [[Category:Languages of Russia]] [[Category:Bashkortostan]]