A Study on the Loanwords from Uzbek to Crimean Tatar Language After the Deportation of 1944

A significant part of the Crimean Tatars were forced to reside on the territory of Uzbekistan since May 18, 1944 until the 1990s after the deportation en masse of Crimean Tatar people from their historic homeland. In 1979, the Soviet government had even designed to grant autonomy to the region by placing the Crimean Tatars in the two towns in Kashkaderian region of Uzbekistan, in order to stop the Crimean Tatars, who were trying to return to their homeland in groups. However, this offer was not accepted by the Crimean Tatars who fought to return to Crimea. The majority of the Crimean Tatars living in Uzbekistan were in and around cities such as Tashkent, Samarkand, Kattakurgan, Bekabbat, Chirchiq, Fergana, Namangan, Andijan. Today, the majority of Crimean Tatars living in Crimea have returned to their homelands only after 1987. Due to the long period of neighborhood with the Uzbek people, (they are also Turkic speaking Muslims), Crimean Tatars inevitably fell under the influence of Uzbek and Central Asian culture as a whole. Examples of this are seen in the life of the Crimean Tatar people living in Crimea today. In this paper we focused on the words entered into the vocabulary of Crimean Tatars through the Uzbek language and their etymological features, having analysed some written sources, as well as daily speech of the Crimean Tatars returned from the exile. Thus, the article draws attention on the question of the Crimean Tatar language present vocabulary, which survived with great efforts, in the environment with Uzbek language predominance, between 1944-1990’ies, and on returning from deportation, the Crimean Tatar people try to revive on their historical homeland, where currently Russian language prevails. A total of 29 words were shown in the research. These words are related to the different concepts