Siberian Tatars
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The Native Western Siberian Tatars (pop. 200,000) are an ethnic group or a sub-group of the Tatars. They speak Siberian Tatar, which is considered to be a dialect of Tatar. Their ancestry was partly from Turkic and Ugric tribes, but their main ancestors were the Kypchaks. Their language also derived from early Kypchak, but was influenced by Kazan Tatar (which was also partly derived from later versions of the Kypchak language), Kazakh, Bashkir, Uzbek and Russian languages.
According to the 2002 census of Russia there are 500,000 Tatars in Siberia, but 300,000 of them are Kazan Tatars settled to Siberia during colonization and the exploration for Tyumen oil.
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