I’ll see you a fish stick, and raise you two. ;-) Actually I am not sure that Tatar is a language, like American is not a language, anyone know for sure?
I was surprised too...until Putin said that.
The Tatar language together with the Bashkir language forms the Kypchak-Bolgar (also "Uralo-Caspian") group within the Kypchak languages, also known as Northwestern Turkic.
Tatar are a Turkic people, not a language, but they do speak Bashkir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars