Baraba or Baraba Tatar, is spoken by at least 8,000
Baraba Tatars
The Baraba (Siberian Tatar: параба, бараба, барама, бараба татарлар) are a sub-group of Siberian Tatars and the indigenous people of the Ob-Irtysh interfluve. After a strenuous resistance to Russian conquest and m ...
in
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...
. It is a dialect of
Siberian Tatar language
Siberian Tatar language (себертатар теле, көнбатыш себер татарлары теле)) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken in Western Siberia region of Russia, primarily in the oblasts of Tyumen, Novosibirsk Ob ...
. While middle aged individuals and the young generation speak Russian and Volga-Ural Tatar languages, Baraba dialect is used by the older generation.
History
The Arabic script has been historically used to write the language. The latin script was adopted in 1928 but was replaced with the Cyrillic script in 1938. While standard Volga Tatar is widely taught in local schools, Baraba Tatar is not.
Geographic distribution
Baraba Tatar is spoken mainly in the
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast (russian: Новосиби́рская о́бласть, ''Novosibirskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibirsk ...
in
Russia
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. Standard Volga–Ural
Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different is taught at local Tatar schools.
Sounds
Consonants
*Sounds in parentheses appear only in loan words.
*The sounds and appear in free variation. The replacement of with is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Volga–Ural Tatar.
Vowels
See also
*
Siberian Tatar language
Siberian Tatar language (себертатар теле, көнбатыш себер татарлары теле)) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken in Western Siberia region of Russia, primarily in the oblasts of Tyumen, Novosibirsk Ob ...
References
Siberian Tatars
Tatar language
External links
* {{in lang, ru}
Atlas of Tatar dialects