Crimean language

Crimean language
Qəryəm
Pronunciation	ka-tron-ski
Native speakers	200,085,395 (2018) L2: 10 million
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Cuman Old Crimean Crimean language
Writing system	Officially Latin and Arabic but Cyrillic is also widely used
Official status
Official language in	Crimea
Regulated by	Shuvet i Ezik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ktr
Linguasphere	52-ABB

Crimean (qəryəm tili, къырым тили), also called Crimean Tatar (qəryəmtatar tili, къырымтатар тили), is a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean diasporas of Ukraine, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Uzbekistan, as well as small communities in the United States, Canada and Russian. Despite being called Crimean Tatar, it should not be confused with Tatar proper, spoken in Tatarstan and adjacent regions in Russia; the languages are related, but belong to two different subgroups of the Kipchak languages and thus are not mutually intelligible. It has been extensively influenced by nearby Oghuz dialects, most notably Turkish.

Script

The official script for Crimean alphabet was the Latin and Arabic alphabets. The Cyrillic alphabet was also an the official script for Crimean, until 2013, when it was replaced by Latin. This change later started a transition to Latin, which brought to a rearrangement of the alphabetical order and the elimination of the phoneme [ɪ] from the new Latin alphabet and the absorption of the phoneme [i] into a new letter: I i. A new letter, X x was also introduced (representing [ks]). The letters ъ, ь and Я я have been abolished. Although not part of the alphabet, Â â ([ja]) is sometimes used in loanwords.

In late 2015, an initiative to use the Georgian script along with the Latin was launched by various Orthodox Crimeans as a way of distancing away from Cyrillic. The Crimean government is currently not looking forward to implementing Mkhedruli.

Alphabet

Latin	Arabic	Cyrillic (until 1993)	Georgian	Name	IPA
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Bb	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Cc	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Çç	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Dd	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ee	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Əə	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ff	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Gg	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ğğ	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Hh	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ii	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Iı	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Jj	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Kk	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ll	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Mm	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Mm	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ññ	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Oo	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Öö	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Pp	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Qq	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Rr	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ss	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Şş	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Tt	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Uu	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Üü	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Vv	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Yy	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Zz	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Ts	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
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Vocabulary

Numbers

Notes