%0 Journal Article %T CRIMEAN TATAR LANGUAGE: RESEARCHES ON SUDAK DIALECTS / KIRIM TATARCASI: SUDAK A IZLARI ¨¹ZER NE ARA TIRMALAR %A Dr. Niyar KURTB£¿LAL %J Turkish Studies %D 2007 %I Turkish studies publisher %X The aims of our researches are; to analyze the characteristics of Sudak dialects, which are still spoken in the Crimea Peninsula as the prolongation of Anatolian dialects, to examine the differences between Sudak dialects and other dialects in the group of Southern dialects, and to define the role of these dialects in the history of Crimean Tatar Language. In analyzing the characteristics of dialects spoken in the region, the type records, which included the interviews of inhabitants, who had lived in the region before the 1944 mass deportation and managed to come back later, the folk songs of the region and the various written sources of ours were used. %K Crimean Tatar Language %K Sudak Dialects %K Southern Dialect %U http://www.turkishstudies.net/sayilar/sayi4/kurtbilalniyar.pdf