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Baraba or Baraba Tatar is spoken by at least 8,000 Baraba Tatars in Siberia

Siberia

Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...

. It is a dialect of Siberian Tatar.

Geographic Distribution

Baraba Tatar is spoken mainly in the Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk Oblast

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in Russia

Russia

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. Standard Volga–Ural Tatar

Tatar language

The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

is used as the literary language.

Differences from Kazan Tatar

Baraba Tatar possesses a number of features that distinguish it from Volga–Ural Tatar:

Change of /ɕ/ to /ts/: /ɕæɕ/ → /tsæts/ "hair"
Devoicing of initial stops: /bʌʃ/ → /paʃ/ "head"
Devoicing of final /z/ to /s/: /sez/ → /sis/ "you (plural)"
Lack of sound changes /e/ ↔ /i/ and /o/ ↔ /u/: /jort/ → /jurt/ "home", /kil-/ → /kel-/ "come"

Consonants

caption | **The consonants of Baraba**
	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p b	t d		k ɡ	q
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative	(f) (v)	s (z)	ʃ (ʒ)	x ɣ		h
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Lateral Glide		l
Trill		r
Semivowel	w ɥ		j

Sounds in paretheses appear only in loan words.
The sounds [ts] and [tʃ] appear in free variation. The replacement of /tʃ/ with /ts/ is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Volga–Ural Tatar.

Vowels

caption | **The vowels of Baraba**
	Front	Central	Back
High	i y		ɯ u
Mid	e ø	ë ø̈ ö	o
Low	æ		a

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