Crimean Tatar

Turkic language spoken in Crimea
Intangible natural_language Q33357
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Summary

Crimean Tatar is a natural language[1]. It draws 3,169 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #124 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Ukraine[3], Turkey[4], Romania[5], Bulgaria[6], Russia[7], Uzbekistan[8]
  • Instance of: modern language[9]
  • Subclass of: Kipchak–Cuman[10]
  • Writing system: Cyrillic script[11], Latin script[12], Arabic alphabet[13]
  • Commons category: Crimean Tatar language[14]
  • Wikimedia language code: crh[15]
  • Coordinate location: 45.1, 34.7[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Crimean Tatar language[17]
  • Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=ctt[18], https://tatar-tili-tilsizgasi-surasi.github.io/crimean-tatar-romania-corpus/[19]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 541,540[20], 228,000[21], 552,740[22]
  • Replaces: Old Crimean Tatar[23]
  • Native label: Qırımtatar tili[24], Qırım tili[25], Къырымтатар тили[26], Къырым тили[27], قریم تاتار تلی[28], قریم تلی[29], Kîrîm tatarşa[30], Kîrîm tatarğa[31]
  • Short name: хъырымаг-тæтæйраг[32], кримськотатарська[33]
  • Different from: Tatar[34]
  • UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[35]
  • Indigenous to: Crimea[36], Republic of Crimea[37], Autonomous Republic of Crimea[38]
  • Female form of label: la langue tatare de Crimée[39]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CRH[40]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q13202786[41]
  • Has grammatical case: ablative case[42]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[43]
  • Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[44], subject–object–verb[45]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine[46]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Crimean Tatar-language films[47]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[48]

Why It Matters

Crimean Tatar has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · C960657 · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → krimtatarisk
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lex id: krimtatarisk"
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