Mishar Tatar dialect
Mishar Tatar or Misher Tatar, also Western Tatar (Мишәр, Mişär, Мишәр Татар, Mişär Tatar, көнбатыш татар, könbatış tatar), is a dialect of Tatar or a separate Turkic language spoken by Mishar Tatars, mainly in Penza, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Volgograd, and Saratov oblasts of Russia, in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia and Mordovia, and in Finland.
| Mishar Tatar | |
|---|---|
| Mişär Tatar | |
| Pronunciation | [miʃær tatar] |
| Native to | Russia, Finland |
| Region | Mordovia, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan, Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Bashkortostan, Samara, Volgograd, Saratov |
| Ethnicity | Mishar Tatars |
| Cyrillic, Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | west2405 |
Some linguists (Radlov, Samoylovich) think that Mishar Tatar belongs to the Kypchak-Cuman group of languages rather than to the Kypchak-Bulgar group.
This is the dialect 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 and most of the people in this community came from Sergach Mishar Tatar villages in the province of Nizhny Novgorod. The success of the first Tatar migrations caused other villagers to migrate to Finland.