Three dialects in Alexander Bessonov's"ABC book for the Bashkirs"
The article provides a complete analysis of the language features of “ABC book for the Bashkirs” (Kazan, 1907) complied by A. G. Bessonov. We analyzed graphic, phonetic, morphological and lexical characteristics of the text in comparison with the data of modern dialects and of the Literary Bashkir, which allowed to identify the three dialects of the ABC book with modern Argayash, Kyzyl and Katay dialects and to establish, which dialectical features were common for these dialects more than 100 years ago, and which territory their speakers occupied.