Crimean Tatar

Also known as Crimean Tatar language, Crimean Turkish, Crimean

Turkic language spoken in Crimea

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Crimean Tatar is a Turkic language with the Wikimedia language code "crh". It is described in the Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon, which is a searchable database of lexical items in the Turkic languages. The language is also referenced in a corpus hosted at a GitHub repository.

The language has 552740 speakers, writers, or signers. It has an exact match in the European Union publications authority resource. The subject is associated with the Commons category "Crimean Tatar language" and is referenced by 1,077 other encyclopedia articles.

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Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon

A searchable database of lexical items in the Turkic languages

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570 entries in lexical database. Click here for all forms in the database. For further information, see the discussion of the Crimean Turkic agglomeration and the history of Turkic in Crimea . Forms labeled Crimean Tatar with no other qualification represent the standard, literary variety, which is based on the Orta variety. The Coastal or Southern variety of Crimean Tatar is of Oghuz origin, and was historically referred to as Crimean Turkish. The Orta and Steppe/Northern varieties are of Kipchak origin. Polinsky, Maria. 1992. “Crimean Tatar and Krymchak: classification and description.” In Howard I. Aronson (ed.) The non-Slavic languages of the USSR: linguistic studies: new series , 157-188.

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Encyclopedic overview

Text in Crimean Tatar

"Welcome to Crimea" (Qırımğa hoş keldiñiz!) written in Crimean Tatar Cyrillic, airport bus, Simferopol International Airport Crimean Tatar Latin script on a plate in Bakhchysarai in 2009, along with Ukrainian Crimean Tatar Latin script sign in Saky Raion in 2021, along with Russian and Ukrainian An example of Crimean Tatar Arabic script. The text reads in Modern Latin alphabet: "Yaşasın, Sotsialist Şuralar Cumhuriyetleri Birligindegi Qurtulış milletlerniñ hür birlikleri!" In Cyrillic: "Йашасын, Социалист Шуралар Джумхурийетлери Бирлигиндеги Къуртулыш миллетлернинъ хюр бирликлери!" Crimean Tatar musician Negeadin Abit plays the song "Ay tek şatır", recorded in Romania. Crimean Tatar (qırımtatar tili, къырымтатар тили, قریم تاتار تلی), also called Crimean (qırım tili, къырым тили, قریم تلی), is a Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada. It should not be confused with Tatar, spoken in Tatarstan and adjacent regions in Russia; Crimean Tatar has been extensively influenced by nearby Oghuz languages and is mutually intelligible with them to varying degrees.

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