Regional languages in Russia - Turkic Language Family Part 1 (Tatar, Bashkir, and Chuvash)
The Bashkir language is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan, European Russia and has approximately 1.2 million speakers in Russia. Bashkir has three dialects: Southern, Eastern and Northwestern.