Crimean Tatar alphabet
Crimean Tatar is written in both Latin and Cyrillic. Historically, the Arabic script was also used. Since 1990s when Verkhovna Rada of Crimea officially accepted the new Common Turkic-based Latin alphabet it had been dominant mostly on the internet while the Soviet Cyrillic alphabet remained dominant in printed productions. After 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea Russian government requires the use of Cyrillic script only. In 2021 Ukrainian government started the switch of Crimean Tatar language to the Latin script. History Arabic script Crimean Tatars used the Arabic script from the 16th century to 1928, when it was replaced by the Latin alphabet based on Yañalif. The Crimean variant contained a couple of modified Arabic letters. 1 — The letter ﻙ (kef) was often used in place of ﮒ and ﯓ. Latin alphabet In 1928, during latinisation in the Soviet Union, the Crimean Tatar Arabic alphabet was replaced by the Latin alphabet based on the Yañalif script. This alphabet contained a number of differences from the modern variant. Particularly, the letters Ь ь, Ƣ ƣ, Ꞑ ꞑ, Ɵ ɵ, X x, Ƶ ƶ, I i instead of the modern Â â, Ğ ğ, I ı, İ i, Ñ ñ, Ö ö,