Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili)

Crimean Tatar is a member of the Kypchak branch of Turkic languages. There are about 300,000 speakers of this language in Crimea, Central Asia, mainly in Uzbekistan, and also in Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria.

Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili, Qırımtatarca) is also known as Crimean (Qırım tili, Qırımca) or Crimean Turkish (Qırım Türkçesi).

Crimean Tatar has been written with the Perso-Arabic script, the Latin alphabet between 1928 and 1938, the Cyrillic alphabet from 1938 to the 1990s, and the Latin alphabet since then, though the Cyrillic alphabet is still used by some people.

Crimean Tatar alphabets

Sample text in Crimean Tatar

Шунынъ ичюн оны талебелери севе , ана - бабалар , койдешлери , зенаатдашлары урьмет этелер . Кеченлерде Ленура оджапчемиз 55 яшыны къайд этти . Бу мунасебет иле онъа узун бахтлы омюр , къавий сагълыкъ , туткъан ишинде мувафакъиет тилеймиз . Даа чокъ йыллар мектепте чалышып , талебелерге ана тилимизге севги ашласын . Березовка кою умумтасиль мектебининъ оджалары . Эскендер Фазылнынъ 70 йыллыгъына багъышлангъан тедбир 7 - нджи декабрьде И .

Source: http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/QIRIM/

Links

Information about the Crimean Tatar language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language
http://salpagarov.narod.ru/alfabet/page_1.htm
http://www.qurultay.org/eng/yazi_eng.asp?yazi_no=217
http://www.vatankirim.net/tatarca.asp

Information about the Crimean Tatars
http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/krimtatar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/crimean_tatars.shtml

Related languages

Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazak, Kumyk, Kyrghyz, Nanai, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut

Other languages written with the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets