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Crimean Tatars
The Crimean Tatars are a Turkic people historically formed in Crimea and Northern Black Sea region; they are a native population of the Crimean peninsula.
Language
They speak the Crimean Tatar language (the Turkic branch of the Altai family). It includes the Northern (steppe), the Middle (mountain) and the South shore dialects. In 1992, the writing system was switched to the Latin script.
Dispersion
The Crimean Tatars mostly live in Crimea and in the Krasnodar region.
Ethnic groups
The Crimean Tatars consisted of three groups: steppe, foothill and south shore; sometimes the researchers distinguish the ethnic group of the descendants of the Nogai which intermixed with the steppe Tatars.
Food
The national dishes of the Crimean Tatars are chebureks (deep-fried pasties with meat), yantyk (baked pasties with meat), saryk burma, khanuma (layered pie with meat), sarma (grape or cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and rice), dolma (peppers stuffed with meat and rice), kobete – originally a greek dish, which is witnessed by its name (baked pie with meat, onions and potatoes), burma (layered pie with pumpkin and nuts), tatarash (dumplings), yufaq ash (broth with very small dumplings), shashlyk, pilaf (rice with meat and dried apricots, unlike the Uzbek one, without carrots), baqla shorbasy (meat soup with green bean pods with sour milk), baqlaly erishte (homemade noodles with kidney beans), shurpa, qaynatma. The national desserts are sheker qyiyuq, kurabye, pakhlava. The traditional drinks are coffee, ayran, yazma, buza.
