Tatar language

Tatar
татар теле / tatar tele / تاتار تلی
Native to	Russia, other post-Soviet states
Ethnicity	Volga Tatars
Native speakers	6.5 million (2015) (may include some L2 speakers)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Bulgar Tatar
Writing system	Tatar alphabet (Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin)
Official status
Official language in	Russia Tatarstan
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
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual code: `sty` – Siberian Tatar
Glottolog	`tata1255`
Linguasphere	`44-AAB-be`
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The Tatar language (Tatar: татар теле; татарча, tatar tele, tatarça; تاتار تلی or طاطار تيلي) is a Turkic language spoken by Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. It should not be confused with the Crimean Tatar language, to which it is remotely related but with which it is not mutually intelligible.

The Tatar language is spoken in Russia (about 5.3 million people), Ukraine, China, Finland, Turkey, Uzbekistan, the United States of America, Romania, Azerbaijan, Israel, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, and other countries. There are more than 7 million speakers of Tatar in the world.

Tatar is also native for several thousand Maris. Mordva's Qaratay group also speak a variant of Kazan Tatar.