- Official language in
- Russia
- Script
- Cyrillic
Where it's spoken
Bashkir is one of the two state languages of the Republic of Bashkortostan, together with Russian, according to the republic's constitution. Wiktionary's Bashkir category describes it as spoken in Bashkortostan, Perm, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, and Kurgan.
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Script & pronunciation
Bashkir is written in the Cyrillic script. Wiktionary describes ҙ as the seventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet, with the sound /ð/, ҡ as the fifteenth, with the sound /q/, and һ as the thirty-first, with the sound /h/. This app's cards give a Latin romanization beside the Cyrillic text, writing ҡ as q, ҙ as dh and һ as h, as in Юҡ (Yuq, "No / There is none"), Һеҙ (Hedh, "You (polite)") and Зинһар (Zinhar, "Please").
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Politeness & etiquette
Wiktionary lists two words for "you" to one person. It defines һин as "you (thou)", singular, and һеҙ as both plural "you" and singular polite "you". The app's card for "You (polite)" is Һеҙ (Hedh), and the app uses it in the question Һеҙ инглизсә һөйләшәһегеҙме? (Hedh inglizsä höyläshähegedhme?, "Do you speak English?").