Башҡортса
Language Facts:
Speakers: 2 million
Family: Turkic
Status: Official in Bashkortostan in Russia
Family: Turkic
Status: Official in Bashkortostan in Russia
Script: Cyrillic
- A knowledge of Russian is somewhat a prerequisite to learn Bashkir, as most resources will be in the language.
- Bashkir is a Turkic language, so expected features like high aggluninative word construction and vowel harmony are present .
- Nouns have six cases, but no gender or articles.
- Verbs are conjugated for person, mood, person, and tense.
- Basic word is is Subject-Object-Verb.
Resources
Books:
Bashkir Language / Башкирский язык – Russian language book, available on Russian e-commerce site Ozon.
Bashkir Language Grammar – another, older book, in Russian. Available in Russia on Ozon .