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About the story
What’s with this “Wren” thing?
   The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

Kırım Tatarçası / Kırım Türkçesi

Crimean Turkic




Once a Soviet dissident, Mustafa
Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu (Cemilev)
currently leads the Crimean “Tatars”
in reasserting themselves after
centuries of repression.

Language information: Crimean Turkic—also known as “Crimean Tatar” (Kırım Tatarçası, КЪырым Татарчасы) and “Crimean Turkish” (Kırım Türkçesi, КЪырым Тюркчеси)—is neither Tatar nor Turkish. It is the language of the Turkic people whose traditional homeland is the Crimean Peninsular, nowadays a part of Ukraine. It is a Turkic language that is fairly closely related to Turkish, Azeri and Turkmen.
     Since 1944, Crimean Tatar has been scattered to many parts of the former Soviet Union—mostly to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and other parts of Ukraine, with sizeable communities in Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. This is the result of forcible extradition of the Turkic population under the Stalinist regime, one of numerous atrocities committed during the Second World War. A Crimean Tatar ALL languages and dialects are beautiful, precious gifts. So cherish yours and others! Share them with the world!movement now seeks to reverse it by means of a physical, linguistic and cultural return to their homeland. Furthermore, there is a Crimean Tatar movement seeking to replace the Cyrillic script for spelling Crimean Tatar (which had been forced upon all Turkic peoples under Stalin’s regime) with a Roman-based one that shares much with the systems used for Azeri and Turkish.
     Krymchak is the very closest relative of Crimean Tatar, might best be considered a dialect of it. It is used by so-called “Krymchaks,” namely by Turkisized Crimean Jews, and its main feature consists of Hebrew-derived lexical elements.

Genealogy: Altaic > Turkic > Southern


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Author: Reinhard F. Hahn


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