Crimean Turkish Language (crh)

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Also Known As: Crimean Tatar,Crimean Turkish


Description:

The Crimean Tatar language (Qırımtatar tili, Qırımtatarca), also known as Crimean (Qırım tili, Qırımca) and Crimean Turkish (Qırım Türkçesi) is the language of the Crimean Tatars. It is spoken in Crimea, Central Asia (mainly in Uzbekistan), and the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria. It is not to be confused with the Tatar language. Today, more than 260,000 Crimean Tatars live in Crimea, and approximately 150,000 are still in exile in Central Asia (mainly in Uzbekistan). An estimated 5 million people of Crimean origin live in Turkey, descendants of those who emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Smaller Crimean Tatar communities are also found in Romania (24,000), Bulgaria (3,000), Poland, Finland, and the United States. It is one of the seriously endangered languages in Europe.

Each of the three subethnic groups of the Crimean Tatars has its own dialect. The dialect of the Noğays - former inhabitants of the Crimean steppe (should not be confused with Nogai people) - is of Kypchak origin, Yalıboylus, who lived on the southern coast of Crimea before 1944, speak an Oghuz dialect very close to Turkish, and the middle dialect of the Tat Tatars from the..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Crimean Turkish Language Speakers

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Overview

Main Country: Uzbekistan
Spoken In:

Regions: Asia

ISO 639-3 Code: crh

Classification Taxonomy

All Languages

  Altaic Group

    Turkic Group

      Southern Turkic Group

        Crimean Turkish Language