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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A Turkic group 🌏 Of Bashkortostan
Bashkir

Bashkir

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A person from Bashkortostan who belongs to a Turkic ethnic group, or the language they speak
  • proper noun
: baskir
  • It would be interesting to know which subclade, but they are pretty much the same, then derives probably from a single individual, and I hope you don't want to theorize that 43% of North Italians derive from a Bashkir, with all due respect to them.

Examples

  • Elias is a proud Bashkir who speaks the language of his ancestors fluently.

  • I hope you don't want to theorize that 43% of North Italians derive from a Bashkir.

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  • In Bashkortostan, the Bashkir people celebrate their unique cultural traditions every year.

  • The festival showcased the rich heritage of the Bashkir community and their vibrant folk dances.

Surface Forms

Bashkir main

Etymology

Bashkir comes from an old Turkic name with baş ('head' or 'main'), so one easy way to remember it is to think of the 'main people' of that area; that is why Bashkir refers to the people themselves and to the language they speak.