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It is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan, and is also spoken Siberia as well as in China, Turkey, Ukraine and all over Central Asia.
There are approximately 7 million native speakers around the world. Until 2000 it was written in modified Cyrillic script. Transition to modified Latin script should be complete in 2011.
The Tatar Cyrillic script requires the Russian alphabet plus 6 extra letters: Әә, Өө, Үү, Җҗ, Ңң, Һһ.
The Tatar Latin script requires the standard Latin alphabet plus 9 extra letters: Əə, Çç, Ğğ, İi, Iı, Ññ, Ɵɵ, Şş, Üü (instead of Ññ there should have been "N with descender", but that letter is currently not represented in Unicode; the next letter is "O with middle bar" — some people think it would be better to use Öö instead).
See also: Tatars
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