# Are Tatars Turkic? Tatar Identity, Language and Diversity

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2100614979699278327
- Source account: [@saborz767676](https://x.com/saborz767676)
- Source language: Turkish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:17
- Published: 2026-09-20
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity) One of our viewers says, "Aren't Tatars slant-eyed Turks, or are we not Turks?"

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=4) If you think Turks consist only of Anatolia and narrow your borders down this much, such a question may arise.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=14) But what are Tatars? We are a nation spread from the most remote corner of Siberia to the most remote corner of the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=22) (Not translated) yayılmış bir milletiz.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=25) Of course, this nation includes people with slanted eyes, blond people, and dark-haired people. There isn't just one color, one color, one type, one thing.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=33) Tatars are one of the oldest, most ancient Turkish communities.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=38) However, they are not Oghuz, they are Kipchak or, uh, they represent Eastern Turkic. Therefore, in terms of language, uh, compared with Oghuz Turkish, Turkish may differ by 51 percent.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=51) That is a difference in pronunciation, a difference in dialect.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=55) Apart from that, they have no other differences.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=57) We're not necessarily talking about a purebred type.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=60) That would be a very dangerous definition.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=63) From as far as Yakutia, from the remotest corner of Siberia all the way to— Pakistan, everywhere.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=69) From the East, you spread across a vast area up to Eastern Europe.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4Oa9d6IXIvyl/en/are-tatars-turkic-tatar-identity-language-and-diversity?t=71) In other words. There will be some change, some effect of the climate, some physical change.