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About Crimean Tatar (Latin)
In May 1944 the Soviet government deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia and Siberia within a few days. The language nearly died out in Crimea itself and survived mainly in exile communities until families were allowed to begin returning after 1989.
Also known as: Crimean Turkish, Crimean
Speakers
estimated 400,000-500,000 worldwide
Language Family
Turkic (Kipchak)
Writing System
Latin alphabet (Turkish-based, with the extra letters Q q and Ñ ñ), the official script since the 1990s. Crimean Tatar is also still written in a Cyrillic alphabet, especially in Russian-annexed Crimea, so the same word can appear in either script depending on where it is published.
Difficulty
Hard
Spoken in
Why Learn Crimean Tatar (Latin)?
Learning Crimean Tatar supports a language actively being revived after mass deportation and decades of suppression, and connects learners to Crimean Tatar communities in Ukraine, Turkey, Uzbekistan and beyond.
Common Crimean Tatar (Latin) Words
Start your Crimean Tatar (Latin) journey with these essential words and phrases.
qırımtatar tili
The Crimean Tatar language (self-name)
kuh-ruhm-ta-TAR tee-lee
suv
Water
soov
küneş
Sun
kew-NESH
kün
Day
kewn
ev
House
ev
arqadaş
Friend
ar-ka-DASH
süygü
Love
sooy-GOO
ötmek
Bread
uht-MEK
ebet
Yes
eh-BET
yoq
No
yok
selâm
Hello
seh-LAM
sağ ol
Thank you (informal)
sah OL
Vatan
Homeland
va-TAN
History of Crimean Tatar (Latin)
Crimean Tatar formed among Turkic, including Kipchak and Cuman, populations of the Crimean peninsula and became the language of the Crimean Khanate (1441-1783), an Ottoman vassal state. After the Russian Empire annexed Crimea in 1783, Crimean Tatar intellectual life continued, notably through the reformist educator Ismail Gasprinski in the late 19th century. In May 1944, Stalin's government deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia and Siberia, and everyday use of the language collapsed in Crimea for decades. Crimean Tatars began returning to Crimea after 1989, and the language has been undergoing an active but fragile revival since.
Is Crimean Tatar (Latin) Hard to Learn?
Crimean Tatar is an agglutinative Kipchak Turkic language with vowel harmony and Turkish-like case and possessive suffixes, which makes it more approachable for learners who already know Turkish. It is complicated by existing in two current orthographies, Latin and Cyrillic, and by decades of Russian and Uzbek loanwords absorbed by exiled communities after the 1944 deportation, so vocabulary and spelling can vary between speaker communities.
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