Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili / Къырымтатар тили / قىرىم تاتار تىلى)
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
Arabic alphabet for Crimean Tatar
Latin alphabet for Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar elifbası)
Cyrillic alphabet for Crimean Tatar (Къырымтатар элифбасы)
Notes
There is vowel harmony in Crimean Tatar: front vowels are e (э/е), i (и), ö (о/ё) and ü (у/ю), and back vowels are a (а), ı (ы), o (о) and u (у).
Bütün insanlar ür, sayğı ve uquqlar itibarı ile musaviy doğalar. Aqıl ve vicdanğa saipler ve bir-birlerine qarşı ağa-qardaşlıq fikirnen areket etmelidirler.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
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