Исәнмесез!
say it: “ee-SEN-meh-sez”
Tatar
in its own words: татар теле
- Speakers
- 5 million (estimate)
- Family
- Turkic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Azerbaijan, Belarus, People's Republic of China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Russian Federation, Ukraine
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Russian Federation (regional)
Fun fact
Tatar is co-official with Russian in Tatarstan. It has been written in Cyrillic since 1939; an attempt to switch to Latin script was halted by a Russian federal law of 2002.