Siberian Tatars

The Native Western Siberian Tatars (200,000) is an ethnos or part of the Tatar ethnos (disputed). They speak Siberian Tatar, also considered to be a dialect of Tatar. Their ancestry was partly from Turkic and Ugric tribes, but their main ancestors were the Kypchaks. Their language also derived from early Kypchak, but was influenced by Kazan Tatar (which was also partly derivied from later Kypchak language), Kazakh, Bashkir, Uzbek and Russian languages.

Accordoning to the 2002 census of Russia there are 500,000 Tatars in Siberia, but 300,000 of them are Kazan Tatars settled to Siberia during colonization and the exploration for Tyumen oil.

External Links

• History of Siberian Tatars