The Bashkir language is a member of the Turkic language family and is predominantly spoken by the Bashkir people, who are a Turkic ethnic group primarily residing in the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia. This republic is located in the southern Ural Mountains and borders Kazakhstan.

Bashkir is the official language of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and it holds significant cultural and historical importance for the Bashkir people. It is written using a modified version of the Cyrillic script, which includes additional characters to represent specific sounds in the Bashkir language.

The Bashkir language has several dialects, with the most prominent ones being Eastern, Western, and Southern Bashkir. These dialects can exhibit differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

In terms of linguistic structure, Bashkir is an agglutinative language, which means that grammatical markers and affixes are attached to the root forms of words to convey meaning. It also has a complex system of nominal and verbal inflections.