Can Tatars and Kazakhs Understand Each Other?

Can Kazakh and Tatar speakers understand each other and Turkic languages such as Turkmen, Uyghur, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, and others? In this episode we showcase some of the similarities and test the degree of mutual intelligibility between Kazakh and Tatar. Instead of a list of words and sentences, Leysan (Tatar speaker) and Tamerlane (Kazakh speaker) will each read paragraphs in their respective languages to see how well they can understand one another. Please follow and contact us on Instagram if you have any suggestions or if you speak a language that has not been featured before and would like to participate in a future video: The Tatar language (татар теле) is primarily spoken by the Volga Tatars in Tatarstan, which is a federal republic of the Russian Federation. The language is closely related to Crimean Tatar, as well as Siberian Tatar, but it is different and should not be confused as being the same. Tatar has official status in the Republic of T