Mishar Tatar
Facts
- Language: Mishar Tatar
- Alternate names: Mishär Tatar
- Language code: dtatm
- Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Kipchak, North Kipchak
- Dialect of: Tatar
- Number of speakers:
- Script: Cyrillic
More information:
Introduction
The Mishar Tatar language is a Turkic language spoken by the spoken by Mishar Tatars mainly located at Penza, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Volgograd, Saratov oblasts of Russia and in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia and Mordovia of Russian Federation.
Mishar Tatar is spoken by the Tatar minority of Finland. The origins of the Tatar community living in Finland rest upon the merchants coming from the Volga-Ural region of Russia in the 1860s.