Бәләкәй шаһзат (Balakai Shahzat) — in The Bashkir language (башҡорт теле), a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. This language is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan, European Russia and has approximately 1.2 million speakers in Russia. Bashkir has three dialects: Southern, Eastern and Northwestern.