Crimean Tatar Language
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Crimean Tatar Language
Crimean Tatar (qırımtatar tili, къырымтатар тили) also called Crimean (qırım tili, къырым тили), is a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada . It should not be confused with Tatar proper, spoken in Tatarstan and adjacent regions in Russia; the languages are related, but belong to two different subgroups of the Kipchak languages and thus are not mutually intelligible . It has been extensively influenced by nearby Oghuz dialects.
Today, more than 260,000 Crimean Tatars live in
Crimea. Approximately 150,000 reside in Central
Asia (mainly in Uzbekistan), where their ancestors had been deported
in 1944 during World War II by the Soviet Union. However, of all
these people, mostly the older generations are the only ones still
speaking Crimean Tatar.
In 2013, the language was estimated to be on the
brink of extinction, being taught in only around 15 schools in
Crimea.
Crimean Tatar is one of the seriously endangered languages in
Europe. Almost all Crimean Tatars are bilingual or multilingual, using as
their first language the dominant languages of their respective home
countries, such as Russian, Turkish, Romanian, Uzbek, Bulgarian or
Ukrainian.
Crimean Tatar is written in either the Cyrillic or Latin alphabets
( picture below), both
modified to the specific needs of Crimean Tatar, and either used
respective to where the language is used.
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