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Name: Crimean Tatar
Type: Language
Alternate Names: CrimeanTurkish; Crimean Turkish
Spoken in: Ukraine, USA, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey
Number of speakers: 260,000 in Ukraine (2006 A. Goriainov). Population total all countries: 483,990 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 120000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 456341 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: crh
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Turkic
Parent Subgroup: West Kipchak; Ponto-Caspian; Kumyk-Karachay (pcas)
Child Dialects: Central Crimean Tatar; Central Crimean (crh-cen) Southern Crimean (crh-sou) Northern Crimean Tatar; Northern Crimean; Crimean Nogai; Steppe Crimean (crh-nor)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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