Turkic family
Crimean Tatar
c. 1400 CE – today Living
Crimean Tatar (c. 1400 CE – today) is a living Turkic language. Lineage: Proto-Turkic → Old Turkic → Proto-Kipchak → Crimean Tatar.
See Crimean Tatar on the interactive map- Speakers
- 300K (300,000)
- ISO 639-3
- crh
- Glottocode
- crim1257
Language of the Crimean Tatars; mixes Kipchak (steppe), Oghuz (southern coast) and transitional dialects. Severely affected by the 1944 deportation.
Lineage
- Proto-Turkicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
- Old Turkic550 CE – 900 CE
- Proto-Kipchakc. 800 CE – 1200 CE
- Crimean Tatarc. 1400 CE – today
Sister languages 5
Also descended from Proto-Kipchak.