At the start of the 20th century, particularly during the Russian Revolution, Bashkortostan and Tatarstan emerged as separate republics, leading to the recognition of Bashkir and Tatar as distinct literary languages.

The word-initial /ʑ/ in Tatar always corresponds to /j/ in Standard Bashkir, e.g., Tatar җылы cılı and Bashkir йылы – yılı, both meaning "warm". However, the eastern and northern dialects of Bashkir have the /j/ > / ʑ ~ ʒ / shift. The Bashkir orthography is more explicit.

In the mid-sixteenth century, after Ivan the Terrible conquered the Tatar Khans, the Bashkirs fell under Russian sovereignty. During massive colonization under Catherine’s rule in the eighteenth century, the Bashkirs were considered to be more privileged than other nomadic tribes.

RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service is the only major international news provider reporting in the Tatar and Bashkir languages to audiences in the Russian Federation’s multiethnic, Muslim-majority...

Tatar academics challenged the rise in numbers of ethnic Bashkirs and decline in numbers of Tatars reported in Bashkortostan’s census results, while Bashkir activists accused Tatarstan of trying to ‘take over’ Bashkortostan.

Tatar academics challenged the rise in numbers of ethnic Bashkirs and decline in numbers of Tatars reported in Bashkortostan's census results, while Bashkir activists accused Tatarstan of trying to 'take over' Bashkortostan.

Tatar-Bashkir Service Radio Azatliq is the only major international news provider reporting in the Tatar, Bashkir, and Russian languages to audiences in Russia’s multi-ethnic, Muslim-majority...

While the number of Tatars in Bashkiria is comparable to the number of Bashkirs, Bashkir territorial formation itself is under constant threat. Of course, the Tatars living in Bashkortostan resist with all their might and want a united national state.

Bashkir is a member of the Kypchak-Bolgar group of the Turkic languages. It is spoken in the southwest of Russian Federation, mainly in the Republic of Bashkortostan, and also in Tatarstan, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Kurgan provinces.

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