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Crimean Tatar LanguageThe Crimean Tatar language or Crimean-Turkish (in its own script: Qırımtatar tili, Qırım Tatar dili resp. Kırım Tatar dili; alternative notation: Qırım Trkesi resp. Kırım Trkesi) is the language of the Crimean Tatars. Spoken in Crimea, Former Soviet Union, and the Crimean Tatar diaspora: Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey. Abbreviated forms of the language designation are: Qırım Tatarası resp. Kırım Tatarası (Crimean Tatar) and from the Turkish: Qırım Tatar Trkesi resp. Kırım Tatar Trkesi (Crimean-Turkish resp. Crimean Tatar Turkish). Because of its history, it has often been counted as belonging to Kypchak Tatar (i.e. Northwestern Turkic languages), however it has been also influenced by the Oguz Turkish. A Crimean Tatar speaker can undestand both Kypchak and Oghuz Turkish/Turkic. The following newspaper report compares the Crimean Tatar and Turkish languages: | b>Comparing Crimean Tatar vs Turkish | | style="background:#CFCFCF;" | Crimean Tatar | | Meclis Haberleri 10.09.2003//Qırımtatar Milliy Meclisini 120-cı toplaşuvı olıp keti 2003 senesi 7 sentăbr kn Aqmescitteki İslam Merkezini binasında Qırımtatar Milliy Meclisini 120-cı toplaşuvı olıp keti. Toplaşuvda... | | style="background:#CFCFCF;" | Turkish | | eclis Haberleri 10.09.2003// Kırım Tatar Mill Meclisinin 120. toplantısı yapıldı 7 Eyll 2003 tarihinde Akmescitteki İslam Merkezi binasında Kırım Tatar Mill Meclisinin genişletilmiş 120. toplantısı gererkleşti. Toplantıda... | These languages are quite similar. Number of speakers Today there are over 300,000 Crimean Tatar speakers. Until 1989 90% of the Crimean Tatars lived in the Fergana Valley within Uzbekistan, whither they were focibly deported in 1944. Today 250,000 Crimean Tatar live in Crimea. More than 1,500,000 inhabitants of Turkey are Turkish-speaking Crimean Tatars emigrated in the 19th century. Crimean Tatars in Turkey can usually speak Crimean Tatar. Circa 24,000 Crimean Tatars live in Romania and another 3,000 in Bulgaria. History, dialects and alphabet The spoken language of the Crimean Tatars is known since the 13th century and divides into three main dialects: "Kypchak-Tatar" from the Crimea; "Kypchak-Nogay" from the northern steppes; and the coastal "Crimea-Osman". The Chagatai language also served the Crimean Tatar as a Dachsprache. Since Islamification these people wrote with a Persian-Arab script. In 1876 different Turkish Crimean dialects were made into a uniform written language, with a preference given to the more southern dialect in order to break the link between the Tatar and the Turkish of the Ottoman Empire. In 1928 the alphabet was replaced with the then Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a combination of the Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet), which however was in 1938 itself replaced with a modified Cyrillic Alphabet. After the repatriation of the Crimean Tatars it was Latinized again. The current Latin-based Crimean Tatar alphabet is the same as the Turkish alphabet with two additional characters: and Q q. Crimean Tatar does not have official language status in Crimea. Crimean Tatar has been spoken by Crimean Greeks, Gypsies, Jews (Krymchaks), and Karaims. Crimean Tatar was the native language of the Crimean Tatar poet Bekir Sidki Cobanzade. External links
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