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Old Tatar language
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Old Tatar language (Iske imla: يسكى تاتار تلى (translit. İske Tatar tele)) is a literary language used in the Khanate of Kazan and among Muslim Tatars.
Old Tatar is a member of the Kypchak (or Northwestern) group of Turkic languages, although it is partly derived from the ancient Bolgar language (the first poems in Old Tatar dates back to Volga Bulgaria's epoch). It included many Persian and Arabic loans.
Language uses Iske imla variant of Arabic script. Old Tatar Language is a language of Idel-Ural poetry. With the Ottoman Turkish, Azeri and Chaghatay, they were the only four Turkic literary languages used in the Middle Ages. It was actively used in publishing until 1905, when the first Tatar newspaper started being published in modern Tatar, which until then had been used only in a spoken form.
- (Tatar) "İske Tatar ädäbi tele/Иске татар әдәби теле". Tatar Encyclopedia. (2002). Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia.