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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kypchak language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
So, their language originate from pure Kipchak, but later was influenced by Volga The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça) is an Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.
Kazan Tatars), Astrakhan Tatars, The Balkar (малкъар /malqar/) people are a Turkic people of the Caucasus region, thet titular population of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Tatar language of Tatars or Tartars is a collective name applied to the Turkic-speaking people of Europe and Asia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kypchak-language   (764 words)

  
  Tatar language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça, Татар теле, Татарча) is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars.
Tatar is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Tatar's ancestors are the extinct Bolgar and Kipchak languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatar_language   (1666 words)

  
 Tatars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the once numerous Turkic-Mongolian population of the Ural-Altaic region, mixed to some extent with the speakers of Uralic languages, as well as with Mongols.
Because it is understandable to all groups of Russian Tatars, as well as to the Chuvash and Bashkirs, the language of the Kazan Tatars became a literary one in the 15th century (iske tatar tele).
Western Tatars capital is the town of Qasím (Kasimov in Russian transcription) in Ryazan Oblast with Tatar population of 500.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatars   (4683 words)

  
 Tatars - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The name of Tatars, or Tartars, given to the invaders, was afterwards extended so as to include different stems of the same Turkic branch in Siberia, and even the bulk of the inhabitants of the high plateau of Asia and its northwestern slopes, described under the general name of Tartary.
Kazan (Qazan) Tatars are the main population of Tatarstan.
Because it is understandable to all groups of European Tatars, as well as to the Chuvash and Bashkirs, the language of the Kazan Tatars became a literary one in the 15th century (iske tatar tele).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tatars   (3724 words)

  
 Tatars Summary
Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the once numerous Turkic-Mongolian population of the Ural-Altaic region, mixed to some extent with the speakers of Uralic languages, as well as with Mongols.
Because it is understandable to all groups of Russian Tatars, as well as to the Chuvash and Bashkirs, the language of the Kazan Tatars became a literary one in the 15th century (iske tatar tele).
Western Tatars capital is the town of Qasím (Kasimov in Russian transcription) in Ryazan Oblast with Tatar population of 500.
www.bookrags.com /Tatars   (5598 words)

  
 Critical Languages Institute
Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation.
Kazan State University, founded in 1804, is one of the largest and oldest institutions of higher education in Russia.
Students take 8 hours per week of Tatar language training, 4 hours per week of intermediate or advanced Russian language instruction, and 3 hours per week of area-related coursework in Tatar history or art.
www.asu.edu /clas/reesc/cli/kazan.htm   (374 words)

  
 «THE TATAR GAZETTE» - THE TATARS IN MORDOVIA
Tatar language is taught only to a group of Tatar students in the Ichalki pedagogical school.
Tatar is taught by teachers of different subjects, they get some training during the course of qualification’s improvement in the College of Teacher’s Skills Improvement.
Young Tatars with a university degree don’t eager to work to the state structures, where there are many obstacles for them, usually artificial, and they go to those spheres of activities, where their nationality does less harm.
www.members.tripod.com /tatargazeta/eng_tatary.html   (1562 words)

  
 Tatars
Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the once much more numerous Turkic population of the Ural-Altaic region, mixed to some extent with Finnish and Nenets (Samoyed) stems, as also with Mongols.
The Kazan (Qazan) Tatars are descendants of the Volga Bulgarians, They settled on the Volga in the 8th century, where they mingled with Finnish stems and partly with descendants of the Kipchaks, settled on the Volga in the 13th century.
Kazan Tatars converted to Sunni Islam the most of Turkic tribes lived in what is now Russia and Kazakhstan in the 11-16th centuries.
www.datamass.net /ta/tatars.html   (3563 words)

  
 Tatar Groups
The spoken language of the people particularly among the Astrahan and Siberian Tatars is composed of three dialects: These are the dialects of Miser, the Middle (Kazan-Tatar) and the Eastern Siberian Tatar dialects.
Perm Tatars is the subgroup of Kazan Tatars and they live in the neighbourhood of the provinces of Perm and Ekaterinburg.
The Miser dialect is the Northern dialect of the Tatar dialect.
www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0007/0007_03_03.htm   (801 words)

  
 «THE TATAR GAZETTE»
She is one of the most prominent politicians in Tatarstan and probably the most influential Tatar woman since the time of Suyumbeka (who ruled the Kazan Khanate in the middle of the 16th century).
Bayramova is the founder and the leader of the Tatar Independence Party ("Ittifak"), which advocates the total and complete independence of Tatarstan, the rebirth of the Tatar state and the revival of its past glory.
Bayramova Fauzia Auhadi Kyzy was born on December 5, 1950, in the village of Sabai in the Saba region of Tatarstan.
www.members.tripod.com /tatargazeta/eng_100.html   (833 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the numerous Turkic population of the Ural-Altaic region, mixed to some extent with the speakers of Uralic languages, as well as with Mongols.
The name of Tatars, given to the invaders, was afterwards extended so as to include different stems of the same Turkic-Mongol branch in Russia, and even the bulk of the inhabitants of the high plateau of Asia and its northwestern slopes, described under the general name of Tartary.
Because it is understandable to all groups of Russian Tatars, as well as to the Chuvash and Bashkirs, the language of the Kazan Tatars became a literary one in the 15th century (İske Tatar tele).
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=tatars   (5013 words)

  
 Welcome to AATT - Tatar
The Tatar language belongs to the Altaic or north western Qypchak branch of the Turkic language family.
The language closest to Tatar among all Turkic languages is Bashkir.
One third of Tatars resides in Tatarstan, a republic located on the left bank of the Volga river, in the European part of Russia, 800 kilometers east of Moscow, whose capital is Kazan.
www.princeton.edu /~turkish/aatt/tatar.htm   (1452 words)

  
 East Asian Studies 210 Notes: The West Siberian Tatars
All Tatars are also descended in part from the numerous tribes of nomadic Turks who became subjects of the vast Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
Tatars who settled in the forest-steppe zone, as well an those Siberian taiga peoples who adopted the Tatar language, also relied heavily on hunting, particularly for the furs which provided local revenue.
Second, the Tatar practice of exacting a fur tribute (yasak) from their local forest subjects was adopted by the Russians and extended in the next 150 years to all parts of Siberia capable of producing valuable furs.
pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/tatar.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Kazan - a thousand-year city with surprising and brilliant history
This is Kazan, one of the most important industrial and cultural centres of the Volga region, in whose history from time immemorial the influences of the civilisations of East and West have fused and interwoven.
Kazan, which like Rome stands on seven hills, is the capital of an ancient people and country whose names, though familiar, are shrouded in misconceptions.
The Tatars have their own language, their own culture, their own age-old traditions and festivals, their own faith, but their past has been and remains intertwined with the history of Russia in the most dramatic and sometimes fateful way.
aboutkazan.com   (520 words)

  
 Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Tatar language
Tatar language is also spoken among the Bashkirs (227,8 thousand Bashkirs regard it as their mother tongue) and Maris.
The modern literary language was developed under the influence of spoken Tatar since the middle of the 19th century.
The phonetics and lexicon of the literary language are close to the Central dialect, morphology to the Western dialect.
www.peoples.org.ru /eng_tatar.html   (469 words)

  
 History of Kazan
Kazan, which like Rome stands on seven hills, is the capital of the ancient people and country whose names, though familiar, are shrouded in misconceptions.
Under its spell Kazan was transformed from a small frontier Bolgar town into a powerful citadel of the khans and a world-famous trading capital on the Volga; its spell overthrew Kazan, turning it into a captive without rights; its spell made it rise again, but in the form a capital of a huge province...
Kazan became in 1922 the capital of an autonomous Soviet republic and traversed the whole thorny path of the Soviet era.
www.kcn.ru /tat_en/history/capital.html   (894 words)

  
 Old Tatar language - Definition, explanation
İske Tatar tele)) is a literary language used in the Khanate of Kazan and among Muslim Tatars.
Old Tatar Language is a language of Idel-Ural poetry, and until the twentieth century, it was the official language of international communication between Tatars, Russians, all Caucasians and Central Asians.
Old Tatar is a member of the Kypchak (or Northwestern) group of Turkic languages, although it is partly derived from the ancient Bolgar language (the first poems in Old Tatar dates back to Volga Bulgaria's epoch).
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/o/ol/old_tatar_language.php   (209 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Inside Putin's Russia: State within a state   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
I well remember visiting Kazan in early 1991 and being impressed by the sense of urgency among Tatar writers who were driving the nationalist movement.
A decade later, new Tatar grammar schools have been opened in Kazan, Tatar language has an equal status with Russian in the republic, and Muslim Tatar women have sued and won a court battle with Moscow to be allowed to wear headscarves on their passport photos.
At the parliament in Kazan, we were told of plans for a new law to require local businesses to pay 15% bonuses to workers who could speak both languages; or, in other words, to pay less to those Russians who do not speak Tatar.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/3340633.stm   (1197 words)

  
 Kazan, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
50% of the population are of tatar nationality.
There are 29 establishments of higher education in the city, alongside the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, the Kazan Center of the RF Academy of Sciences and a number of scientific and research institutes.
So in the summer of 2005 Kazan is celebrating its 1000th anniversary (pretty amazing, isn't it?), and of course it's going to happen on the 30th of August.
www.ollickwedding.com /kazan.html   (894 words)

  
 Kazan Hotels
Kazan is a city with a colourful, violent, complicated, rich history.
Present relations between the Tatars and Russians are for the most part stable, although there are segments of Tatar society who agitate strongly for Tatar independence.
Tatar language is taught in schools in Kazan, and the red, white and green flag of Tatarstan flies over government buildings
www.hotels-russia.info /kazan.htm   (343 words)

  
 *denizzOne*
Tatar etno rock/jazz band was founded in 1992 by Deniz Bedretdin to bring contemporary and alternative music to the tatar culture in their language
Tatars all over the world got together for the first time in their history.
From 1993 the KGB band has been arranging tatar folk music with progressive rock influences and at the same time Deniz started to write his own music in tatar language.
koti.welho.com /dbedretd/kgb.htm   (696 words)

  
 Atlas: Kazan
Relations between the city and Russia, its gigantic neighbor to the north, were volatile for centuries, as Tatar troops invaded Russian lands and Russian armies (both temporal and spiritual) tried to take Tatar land and convert its Islamic population to Russian Orthodoxy.
Present relations between the Tatars and Russians are for the most part stable, although there are segments of Tatar society who agitate strongly for Tatar independence.
Tatar language is taught in schools in Kazan, and the red, white and green flag of Tatarstan flies over government buildings.
www.f8.com /FP/Russia/Akaza.html   (292 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:tat
Capital is Kazan (Kasan), on the Volga River.
Tepter (300,000) is reported to be between the Tatar and Bashkir languages.
Uralic Tatar (110,000) is spoken by the Kerashen Tatar.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=tat   (259 words)

  
 Report from Kazan, Tatarstan
This is evident in the city of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, a region with a population of one million which declared its autonomy from Russia in 1991.
The Tatar language is part of the Turkic group and is closely related to Kazakh, Uzbek, Uighir, Bashkir, Turkmen, Kirghiz and Tadjik.
She is a professor at the University of Kazan and speaks fluent English.
www.forerunner.com /predvestnik/X0061_Tatars.html   (2439 words)

  
 Language
Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html   (454 words)

  
 Conversion of Muslims to Christ in former USSR
The main purpose of visiting Kazan was to investigate the situation among the churches who are ministering to the Tatar people, an ethnic group which is almost 100 percent Muslim.
Kazan is a city on the Volga river and the capital of Tatarstan, an empire established by the Tatar-Mongols after the time of Genghis Khan.
One linguist in Kazan explained to me that Tatar is part of the Turkic language group which comprises over a dozen languages and dialects in the former USSR, central Asia and western China.
www.forerunner.com /predvestnik/X0016_Muslims_in_former_US.html   (950 words)

  
 OHCHR: Tatar () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Tatar, also spelled Tartar, is spoken in the Reppublic of Tatarstan and other Republics of the former Soviet Union, and also in Siberia.
Tatar is a Turkic language belonging to the Altaic family.
The Tatars first appear in Russian history in the 13th century when, as the Mongols, they overran most of the country and settled down to rule.
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/ttr.htm   (191 words)

  
 World Report 367 -- March 2002 #37
KAZAN, Tatarstan, Russian Federation — When Ivan the Terrible conquered what is now the Republic of Tatarstan in 1552 he was determined to convert the Tatars to Christianity, using force if necessary.
Many Tatars today still feel that it is a ‘Russian’ religion, and only a small part of the population – a little over 200,000 out of a population of seven million – is Christian.
Work on translating the Bible into Tatar was begun during the communist years of the 1970s by the Institute for Bible Translation (IBT), but only really took off in 1993 when IBT formed a partnership with other Bible agencies, with assistance from UBS.
www.biblesociety.org /wr_367/367_37.htm   (627 words)

  
 Agnès Kefeli's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This eight-week course is designed to give the students the opportunity to learn the language and become familiar with the culture of the Tatars, a Turkic people living in Tatarstan, Siberia and Central Asia.
Tatars played an important role in the national awakening of the Islamic peoples in Russia both before and after the 1917 revolutions; today Tatarstan enjoys a unique position in the Russian Federation as the only internal republic officially recognized as "sovereign."
ASU has recently concluded an agreement with Kazan State University, the center of Tatar culture, which will allow ASU students to study Tatar in Kazan, Tatarstan, for a semester or academic year.
www.public.asu.edu /~akefeli   (333 words)

  
 TATAR
The Four Gospels and Psalms in the Tatar language.
Source: New Testament in Tatar language,, Institute for Bible Translation, Kazan, Tatarstan 2001.
Source: The Four Gospels in Tatar language, Institute for Bible Translation, 1995.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/JPN-tatar.html   (104 words)

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