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Tartar
Indigenous Group	Tartar (Also known as: Tatar, Tata’er, Dada, Daden)
Location	China, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tacheng, Wulumuqi, Yining.
Estimated Population	5,100 (1990, China Census)
Environment	Arid
Lifestyle	Sedentary
Subsistence	Paid Labor / Agriculture / Handicraft Sales
Level of Assimilation	Assimilated
Language Family	Tatar Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Western, Uralian Alternate Names: Tartar Dialects: Middle Tatar (Kazan), Western Tatar (Misher), Eastern Tatar (Siberian Tatar). Eastern Tatar is divided into 3: Tobol-Irtysh, Baraba, and Tom. Tobol-Irtysh is divided into 5: Tyumen, Tobol, Zabolotny, Tevriz, and Tara (Tumasheva). Mixed dialects are: Astrakhan, Kasimov, Tepter, and Ural (Poppe). 43,000 Astrakhan have assimilated to the Middle dialect. Kasim (5,000) is between Middle and Western Tatar. Tepter (300,000) is reported to be between the Tatar and Bashkir languages. Uralic Tatar (110,000) is spoken by the Kerashen Tatar.
Website URLs	Ethnologue report of language code: tat Joshua Project – Peoples by Country Profiles China Folklore Photographic Association Asia Harvest Chinatown Online Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco Index-China.com China.org.cn Wikipedia
NGOs	China Folklore Photographic Association