Romanian Tatar (Tatar tílí)

Romanian Tatar is a member of the Kipchak-Nogai branch of Turkic language family. It is spoken by about 70,000 people, mainly in Constanța County in the south of the Dobrogea region in the southeast of Romania, and in the Dobrich Province in northeastern in Bulgaria. It is also spoken in Turkey, Moldova and Ukraine.

In Romania, Romanian Tatar is commonly called the Tatar language (Limba tătară). In some sources it is known as Dobrujan Tatar, Danube Tatar, Budjak Tatar, Moldovan-Romanian Tatar, Nogai, Nogai-Tatar, Dobrujan Nogai, Budjak Nogai, Crimean Tatar, Dobrujan Crimean Tatar, Authentic Crimean Tatar or Colloquial Crimean Tatar.

Romanian Tatar has three dialects, which differ mainly in pronunciation, and to some extent in vocabulary.

Written Romanian Tatar

There are ways to write Romanian Tatar with the Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets. The Arabic alphabet was used until 1956. An orthography using the Latin alphabet was developed in 1956 by the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy. A new Latin orthography was developed in 2010, although it is not officially recognised or accepted in Romania yet. There is some written material in the language, including magazines, novels, dictionaries, school textbooks, science books, and books of poems. There are some programmes about the language on Romanian television.

Romanian Tatar has been offered as a subject in some Romanian schools since 2020. It is recognised as a minority language in Romania.

Taner Murat, a Romanian Tatar writer, poet and translator, has published work in Romanian Tatar in the Cyrillic alphabet, the Arabic script and the Old Turkic script, as well as in the Latin alphabet. The Cyrillic version was designed to create a connection with other Turkic languages, such as Crimean Tatar. The Latin script is the official writing system.

Romanian Tatar alphabet (Tatar elifbesí)

Romanian Tatar alphabet (Tatar elifbesí)

Notes

Romanian Tatar Cyrillic alphabet (Татар элифбэсі)

Romanian Tatar Cyrillic alphabet (Татар элифбэсі)

Romanian Tatar Arabic alphabet (تَاتَارْ اَلِفْبَسِ)

Romanian Tatar Arabic alphabet

Romanian Tatar Old Turkic alphabet

Romanian Tatar Old Turkic alphabet

Notes

Download alphabet charts for Romanian Tatar (Excel)

Sample text (Latin)

Ğúmle insanulî hak, asudelík we hukukta bírdiy tuwgan. Olar zihiniyet we pasiyet iyesí bolîp, bír-bírleríne tuwmalîkşa múnasebette tapîlmalarî kerek.

Sample text (Cyrillic)

Җүмлэ инсанулы хак, асудэлік ўэ хукукта бірдий туўган. Олар зихинийэт ўэ пасийэт ийэсі болып, бір-бірлэрінэ туўмалыкша мүнасэбэттэ тапылмалары кэрэк.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Sample videos in and about Romanian Tatar

Information about Romanian Tatar | Phrases | Numbers

Links

Information about Romanian Tatar
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Dobruja_dialect_of_Crimean_Tatar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrujan_Tatar_alphabet
https://ro.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limba_tătară_română
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumänisch-tatarische_Sprache
https://www.academia.edu/19984869/Romanian_Tatar_language_communication_in_the_multicultural_space
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342338919_The_Sounds_of_Tatar_Spoken_in_Romania_
The_Golden_Khwarezmian_Language_of_the_Nine_Noble_Nations

https://www.academia.edu/34831410/Dicționar_Tătar_Crimean_Român_Kîrîm_Tatarşa_Kazakşa_Sózlík
http://tatar-tatarman.blogspot.com/?m=1

Turkic languages

Altay, Äynu, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chagatai, Chelkan, Chulym, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dolgan, Fuyu Kyrgyz, Gagauz, Ili Turki, Karachay-Balkar, Karaim, Karakalpak, Karamanli Turkish, Kazakh, Khakas, Khalaj, Khorasani Turkic, Krymchak, Kumandy, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lop, Nogai, Old Turkic, Qashqai, Romanian Tatar, Salar, Shor, Siberian Tatar, Soyot, Tatar, Teleut, Tofa, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Western Yugur, Yakut (Sakha)

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 29.04.23. Last modified: 21.09.24

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