Turkic family
Tatar
c. 1300 CE – today Living
Tatar (c. 1300 CE – today) is a living Turkic language. Lineage: Proto-Turkic → Old Turkic → Proto-Kipchak → Tatar.
See Tatar on the interactive map- Speakers
- 5M (5,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- tat
- Glottocode
- tata1255
Kipchak–Bulgar language of Tatarstan and the Volga–Ural region, with a Bulgar substrate. Literary Old Tatar was used until the early 20th c.
Lineage
- Proto-Turkicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
- Old Turkic550 CE – 900 CE
- Proto-Kipchakc. 800 CE – 1200 CE
- Tatarc. 1300 CE – today
Sister languages 5
Also descended from Proto-Kipchak.