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The Crimean Tatar language is a member of Kipchak languages of the Turkic language family. It has three dialects and the standard language is written in the central dialect. Crimean Tatar has a unique position among the Turkic languages because its three "dialects" belong to three different (sub)groups of Turkic.
Today, Crimean Tatars constitute approximately 12% of the population of Crimea. There is a large diaspora in Turkey and Uzbekistan, but most (especially in Turkey) of them do not consider themselves Crimean Tatars. [3] Still, there remains a diaspora in Dobruja, where most of the Tatars keep identifying themselves as Crimean Tatars.
Tatars refer to several Turkic [1] ethnic group numbering 7.3 million in 21st century, including all Turkic subgroups that are still referred to as Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Tatars in Lithuania, Crimean Tatars, Mishar Tatars, Dobrujan Tatars, Tatar (Hazara tribe) and Siberian Tatars.
Cuman in Crimea, however, became the ancestor of the central dialect of Crimean Tatar. [46] Mongolian linguistic elements in the Kipchak–Kimek confederation remain "unproven"; [26] though that confederation's constituent Tatar tribe possibly had been Mongolic speakers who later underwent Turkification. [47]
The Tatars of Romania, Tatars of Dobruja or Dobrujan Tatars [1] [a] are a Turkic ethnic group that have been present in Romania since the 13th century. According to the 2011 census, 20,282 people declared themselves as Tatar, most of them being Crimean Tatars [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and living in Constanța County .
The settled Crimean Tatars were engaged in trade, agriculture, and artisanry. Crimea was a center of wine, tobacco, and fruit cultivation. Bahçeseray kilims (oriental rugs) were exported to Poland, and knives made by Crimean Tatar artisans were deemed the best by the Caucasian tribes. Crimea was also renowned for manufacture of silk and honey.
By the end of the 15th century, the main prerequisites that led to the formation of an independent Crimean Tatar ethnic group were created: the political dominance of the Crimean Khanate was established in Crimea, the Turkic languages (Cuman–Kipchak on the territory of the khanate) became dominant, and Islam acquired the status of a state ...
Melek Amet – first Crimean Tatar fashion model in Romania; Cüneyt Arkın – film actor, producer and director; Gürer Aykal – conductor and adjunct professor at Bilkent University; the musical director and principal conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra; Erol Büyükburç – singer-songwriter, pop music composer