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  Crimean Tatar language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is spoken in Crimea, the former Soviet Union, and the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria.
The spoken language of the Crimean Tatars has existed since the 13th century, and consists of three main dialects: "Kypchak-Tatar" from the Crimean Mountains, "Kypchak-Nogay" from the northern steppes, and the coastal "Crimea-Osman".
Crimean Tatar was the native language of the poet Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language   (534 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Assessment for Crimean Tatars in Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The ancestors of today’s Crimean Tatars began settling the northern plains of the peninsula in the mid-13th century.
In 1944, Stalin expelled Crimean Tatar populations to Central Asia, as punishment for supposed Tatar collaboration with the Germans.
In the long run, the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine will depend to a large degree on the economic situation in the country, so that economic funds can be freed up to better their living conditions without taking resources away from Russians and Ukrainians, and on the political leadership in Kiev and Simferopol.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36904   (1254 words)

  
 The Crimean Tatars by Greta Lynn Uehling
The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic represents a fleeting Golden Age before this status was revoked and Crimea, along with the rest of the USSR, was plunged into mass repression of intellectuals and clergy, state-sanctioned famine, and forced collectivization of agriculture.
Tatars occupied unused state land on the outskirts of cities and towns and built temporary shelters or lived in the cargo containers that had brought their belongings.
The Crimean Tatars' primary objectives are government sponsored return of the Crimean Tatar people to Crimea; full restoration of their rights and property; recognition of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis as the official representative body; and representation of the Crimean Tatars in the Crimean Parliament.
www.iccrimea.org /scholarly/krimtatars.html   (4241 words)

  
 Crimean Tatar-Russian as a Reflection of Crimean Tatar National Identity
Practically since their deportation from Crimea in 1944, the Crimean Tatars' (CT) national movement has been the key social phenomenon in the lives of CT. One of the foremost reasons this small ethnic group has withstood and continues to withstand extreme economic and political hardship is the strength of the CT family structure.
Language is at the core of national identity, and it is a commonly held idea among CT that language is at the core of their ethnicity.
Where language is mentioned in a contemporary context, it is to call for the development of CT-language schools, or to note or bemoan the widespread use of R among the younger CT due to their R-language education, but it has not described CT-R or discussed its significance.
www.iccrimea.org /scholarly/mhall.html   (4625 words)

  
 Parallel Report - Article 14
The local authorities are spreading propaganda against the education Mother tongue, threaten to parents, that education in Crimean Tatar language in kinder-garden is not perspective (it was explained in the conversations with parents at the meeting in towns; Starry Crimea, Simferopol, Krasnogvardeysky, Jankoy, Krasnpperekopsky and other districts).
The lack of Crimean Tatar schools in Crimea means the abolition of Crimean Tatar language in principle.
In 1991, the Department of Crimean Tatar language and literature, was opened in Simferopol University with general admission of 50 students yearly.
www.minelres.lv /reports/ukraine/Article_14.htm   (1578 words)

  
 LANGUAGE
Crimean Tatar is a Kipchak language from the Western Turkic language group which, however, has been strongly influenced by Oguz through Ottoman Turkish.
The Tatar language was at a sadvantage the official language was Ottoman Turkish, and did not develop a literary variant (Boev, 1964, pp.
The main marker of Tatarlik " Tatar ethnicity " is the Tatar language.
members.fortunecity.com /timurberk/kirim/ttrbg/language.html   (630 words)

  
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The department of the Crimean-Tatar Language was established in 1992 attached to the Philological Faculty of Simferopol State University.
Scientific researches in the sphere of the history of the language, study of styles, dialects and the contemporary state of the taught language occupy the considerable place in the work of the members of the department.
She works under the direct guidance of the head of the chair, she manages the study of the department, she is responsible for the safety of the equipment, appearance of the department, she is a financially responsible person of the department.
www.ccssu.crimea.ua /eng/structure/phil_fac/phil_f6.html   (542 words)

  
 Crimean Tatars
The national awakening of the Crimean Tatars began in the last quarter of the 19th century nurtured by the rise of Pan-Islamism and the Pan-Turkish movements.
A connection is assumed to exist between the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and Soviet claims on the straits ruled by Turkey.
In 1957 the Crimean Tatars began a campaign to collect signatures for petition to be allowed to return to their homeland.
www.kresy.co.uk /krym.html   (1148 words)

  
 Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1944, Stalin expelled Crimean Tatar populations to Central Asia, fearing Tatar collaboration with the Germans.
A massive influx of Crimean Tatars from Uzbekistan has led and will likely lead to an overcrowding of a scarce housing and greater pressure of former Tatar lands that are now occupied by other groups.
In the long run, the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine will depend to a large degree on the economic situation in the country so that economic funds can be freed up to better their living conditions without taking resources away from Russians and Ukrainians.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/ukrctat.htm   (1255 words)

  
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Second, the Crimean Tatar leaders should insist that the Crimean parliament employ Crimean Tatar translators so that the Crimean Tatar members can use their language rather than being forced to speak Russian in order to be understood.
Third, the Crimean Tatars should insist that their national language rather than Russian or Ukrainian should be the exclusive language of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis (assembly).
Unless the Crimean Tatars are able to maintain their own language, they will find it difficult to maintain themselves as a people or to gain recognition by local authorities in Crimea or further afield.
www.infoukes.com /rfe-ukraine/1997/1024.html   (1756 words)

  
 Crimean news 71
The guests were interested in political and economic situation around Crimean Tatar people, structure of Mejlis, participating of international organizations in returning and accommodation of the Crimean Tatar people, role of Mass Media Means in throwing light on the Crimean Tatars' problems.
Crimean Tatars' attempts to solve this problem face inadequate reaction of officials and power representatives.
State Crimean Tatar ensemble "Khaytarma" and ensemble "Kuneshchik" from children music school made a performance on Duvanovskiy Street, where the museum is located.
crimeanews.tripod.com /issue71.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Kirim - Crimea - Krim - Qirim - Crimée - Krym * Education
According to Ministry of Education of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, in 2003-2004 there are 14 establishments of general education with the Crimean Tatar language of instruction (4170 students study in 207 classes) in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
The general number of children instructed in the Crimean Tatar language in 2003-2004 educational year constitutes 13,4 % (5988 pupils) of the total number of students of the Crimean Tatar nationality (in the previous year - 12,6 %).
Ukrainian, Russian, and Crimean Tatar are all recognized as state languages in Crimea, but the lack of schools and teaching materials in the Crimean Tatar language has given rise to complaints of discrimination from the Tatar community.
www.geocities.com /ai320/q_education.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Center of Information and Documentation of Crimean Tatars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Crimean Tatars honor as one of the most esteemed defenders of their rights another Ukrainian, Petro Hryhorneko, once a Soviet general who became one of the most vocal defenders of the Crimean Tatar rights in the 1970s.
Crimean Tatars are a crucial piece in the “puzzles” of ethnic peace in Crimea – peace that endured despite wide-spread predictions to the contrary in early and mid-1990s.
625,919 Ukrainians composed 25.7% of the population, and 38,365 Crimean Tatars - 1.58%.
www.cidct.org.ua /en/studii/7/3.html   (10462 words)

  
 About our Theater-Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1999, the Crimean Tatar Theater-Studio was established in ancient Bakhchisaray.
There are many works in Crimean Tatar literature describing the deportation, but the Theater-Studio members decided to organize a week-long expedition to villages in different regions of Crimea to meet with elder people who were themselves deported in 1944 or were eyewitnesses.
Being aware of the fact that this story is included in secondary school curriculum on Crimean Tatar literature, special performances were organized for students of all five Bakhchisaray schools, schools of villages of Golubinka, Viktorovka and Vilino, school #25 of Simferopol, students of Simferopol State University.
www.angelfire.com /art2/btheater/english/theater_e.html   (677 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Mustafa Dzhemilev, chairman of the Mejlis (parliament) of the Crimean Autonomous Republic and a member of the Ukrainian parliament, has spearheaded the Crimean Tatars' campaign to be allowed to return to Crimea since 1961.
Today, some 250,000 Crimean Tatars who have managed to return to Crimea are engaged in a new struggle with the Ukrainian authorities to obtain housing and preserve their language and culture.
Firstly, the recognition of the Crimean Tatar language as the official language on the territory of the autonomous republic.
www.rferl.org /features/2003/06/02062003154311.asp   (1536 words)

  
 CRIMEA: Rebirth of Crimea Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Crimean Tatars are the descendants of the native Crimean population and of the Tatars who came to the peninsula in the thirteenth century and created their own state, the Crimean Khanate.
Stalin's repressive measures against the Tatars culminated in the 1944 deportation of the entire Tatar population to Central Asia.
Crimean guests also had meetings with public officials from Lublin and gave interviews to two private radio stations and two television stations.
www.euronet.nl /users/sota/rcf.html   (1715 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
Thanks to the persistance of the Crimean Tatars they were recorded separately in the last census in 1989.
According to the documents of the Crimean Tatar National Movement Organization the ethnic group is 550,000 strong.
The Crimean Tatar Congress (Kurultai) approved a declaration in which they demanded privileges for the Crimean Tatars in the Crimea and the right to self-determination regarding the use of natural resources and resort areas.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/crimean_tatars.shtml   (1286 words)

  
 Crimean Tatar NGOs
As Crimean Tatars strive to resettle in their ancestral homeland, after a fifty-year forced exile, their work at the grass-roots level is assisted by a number of international organizations.
Recently, a seminar for members of National Mejlis (self-governing body of the Crimean Tatar people) was organized with the assistance of the FED. At this seminar, there was an interesting exchange of opinions on such democratic principles as basics of negotiation, determining goals and ways to achieve them, and holding conferences, meetings and congresses.
Crimean Tatar non-profit organizations work not only in traditional spheres, but also in areas relating to the repatriation of the deportees.
www.iccrimea.org /ngos/ngos.html   (4643 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The 25,500 Crimean Tatars of Romania are actually part of a much greater Tatar population that lives primarily in Russia.
The Crimean Tatars are descendants of the Mongols who swept through eastern Europe in the thirteenth century.
To this day, the Tatars are still struggling to return to the homeland they were forced to leave almost half a century ago.
www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code/81.html   (798 words)

  
 Parallel Report - Article 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Under the Crimean Constitution from October 1998 only Russian was declared to be an official language and a language in public service in Crimea, that means absolute monopoly of Russian language in state and public life, and in state system of secondary and high education.
The single all-republican weekly newspapers edited in Crimean Tatar language "Crimea" and "Yani dunya" (New World) are threatened to be closed because of lack of money.
Recently volume of radio broadcast in Crimean Tatar's language constituted 10 hours and 10 minutes weekly, that is ten times less than radio broadcast in Russian.
www.minelres.lv /reports/ukraine/Article_9.htm   (598 words)

  
 ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Project Reports
Ayder Memetov, Tavrichesky National ...
The grant which I received in 1999 was used for preparation to editing publication and edition of the textbook for higher school, "Lexicology of the Crimean-Tatar language" (288 pages, 3,000 copies).
The textbook was published in Simferopol by the publishing house "Crimean Uchpedgis" in 2000.
It will be published for the first time and it is sure to fill the gap in teaching the native language.
www.acls.org /hum-reports/uk99memetov.htm   (203 words)

  
 Crimean Tatar Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Crimean Tatars are Turkic people who inhabited the Crimean peninsula, now a part of Ukraine, for over seven centuries.
Although a 1967 Soviet decree removed the charges against Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government did nothing to facilitate their resettlement in Crimea and to make reparations for lost lives and confiscated property.
Today more than 250,000 Crimean Tatars are back in their homeland, struggling to reestablish their lives and reclaim their national and cultural rights against many social and economic obstacles.
www.euronet.nl /users/sota/krimtatar.html   (410 words)

  
 Crimean Tatars: The Expanded Session of the Mejlis Has Taken Place in Bakhchisaray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In connection with a probable meeting with the President of Ukraine within the framework of its preparation there have been discussed basic questions, which are very actual for the Crimean Tatar people in the nearest future.
One of the agenda's questions was discussion of offers on personnel assignments of experts-professionals from among of the Crimean Tatars for working in bodies of the government.
At the session it was also passed the decision of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people "About discrimination of the Crimean Tatars in the right to the ground and measures on protection of legal requirements of landless Crimean Tatars".
www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=20&par=2049   (536 words)

  
 MINELREL-L Archive (05051998-10:27:45-18722)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Crimean Tatar national proverb Day Quotations "Today we have obtained the recognition of the rights to study in our native language, there are laws that guarantee the fulfillment of those rights, moreover, that prescribe doing that, but there is lack of mechanisms of fulfillment.
Dilara Seitvelieva (Chairman of the Crimean Tatar public organization "The Teachers' Council") "Speaking about the integration processes of Crimean Tatars into Ukrainian society we also have to care for the opposite movement.
It has to be started, first of all, from the Ukrainian children and youth studying the Crimean Tatar language.
www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /minelres/archive/05051998-10:27:45-18722.html   (526 words)

  
 ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Recipients
Systematization and catalogization of Crimean churches of the 4th—15th centuries according to the publications and archival materials.
The Crimean Khans' yarlyks on Ukrainian lands (second half of the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries).
A socio-linguistic overview of the language situation in the Far North of Russia in the 20th century.
www.acls.org /humanities-byruuk-recips.htm   (8687 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The 21,000 Crimean Tatar of Russia are part of a much greater Tatar population.
Large numbers of Crimean Tatars can be found in Turkey, Romania, Uzbekistan, and the Ukraine.
The Tatars have a deep love for songs and music, which are popular at holidays and feasts.
www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code/1994.html   (777 words)

  
 Crimean Tatars Commemorate Anniversary of Deportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The monument executed by Crimean sculptor Ilmi Ametov and established at entrance to the village from line Simferopol-Nikolaevka, represents 5-meter Stella made of white alma stone, topped by the Crimean Tatar Tamga (national symbol).
On the Stella there are written the words on Crimean Tatar language: "It is good to come back home from foreign land, it is good to burn down for the people", and also date of deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from Crimea - May 18, 1944.
Rural head of Kolchughino T.Nikolaeva has expressed gratitude to initiators and to founders of the monument, and also has addressed to inhabitants of the village "not to show blasphemy in relation to monuments".
www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=20&par=2514   (454 words)

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