Russia: Tatars try to save their language | DW English

Many of Russia's Tatars believe their culture is endangered, as their language is no longer a compulsory subject alongside Russian in Tatarstan's schools. Moscow did away with the requirement. But many in the autonomous republic want it back.
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[soyombika]

I am tatar from Tatarstan, I speak tatar. It is very sad that we can not learn tatar language in schools anymore

[LucyLu]

Looks like tatars have a wonderful culture.

[whatshouldidowithmychannel]

Tatar and Bashkir are amazing languages.

[muhamedgreatman]

Tatar are native and majority there State

[somaliancientegyptian]

❤❤❤ Don't loss native language if you loss your native language you Will loss your culture

[Alkid_Sunrize]

it's very sad for me to understand that my first language is dying. when i was young my grandparents were speaking tatar a lot and i really loved it. and now they are dead and the language will be dead soon as well. seems like the end of era for me.

[aqlli_yechimlar]

Now I understand better how valuable the term "independency" is.
I'm from Uzbekistan.

[amarsanaasanjaa]

They did the same to Buryats (Mongolian). Now most of the Buryats can’t speak Mongolian (buryat dialect) anymore.

[martentrudeau]

Long live Tatar people. Love begins at home, the Tatars loving their history and heritage is called patriotism and that is a good thing.

[redbaron]

While an azerbaijani can understand a turkmen and they can both understand a tatar clearly, without any difficulty (while all speaking in their own native tongues), they tend to use russian in their speeches. Some call it assimilation, some call it weakness, some see it weird, some see it normal. Weirder thing is that even there are 'russo-speaking' classes inside these nations, which are consisted of people who know their native languages but prefer speaking in russian among themselves.
Some situations are hard to understand

[gustavomartinez]

It is so hard to maintain a culture intact. Should be everybody's interest

[umqpta]

Imagine that someone make fun of you/don't give you a job/discriminate you cause you are speaking your mother tongue and can't speak Russian. Post soviet countries' people don't have to imagine. It's their life.
My aunt made fun of me when I was younger cause I didn't know russian and she/her daughter knew. Fortunately, I didn't forget my native lang.

[odilbekb-sarkaev]

Suvar, Volga Bulgar, Tatars live long brothers. 👍👍👍

[hannabeit]

2:00 Hard to believe someone would say these words in 21th century

[alienozdamar]

From the video and comments below, I figured that I as a Crimean Tatar/Turkmen understand Kazan Tatar language better than Kazan Tatars.

[luna]

Our turkic brothers will protect their language. I know that

[sakyd]

We support tatars in turkey we turkic brother

[zafer]

Tatar is not a miinority culture or whatsoever. Tatars had been independent rulers of big portion of todays Russia for centuries. Tatar and Başkırt intellectuals from Tataristan and Başkırtistan even contributed to foundation of Modern Turkey. Thus, Tatar language and culture cannot be considered as a minority language and culture.

[HappyLilJimmy]

I’m Punjabi, my great great grandfather was a trader and his forefathers and his wife’s family too were Punjabi merchants who use too trade all the way too st petersberg, we assume he was part Tatar because he had green and blue eyes and him and his siblings had coloured hair which is not normal for Indians, love from NZ

[L_T]

I started learning tatar this morning :-D