A presentation of the National Corpus of the Crimean Tatar Language took place in Kyiv

November 24, 2023

On Thursday, November 23, the Crimean House held a presentation of the National Corpus of the Crimean Tatar language.

“The Crimean Tatar language corpus is an electronic array of texts, thanks to which you can study the language as a database. It contains ordered literary, journalistic and scientific-educational texts in the Crimean Tatar language”,- noted the organizers of the event.

The event was hosted by Sevhil Musaieva, a Ukrainian journalist and editor-in-chief of the online publication Ukrainian Truth.

In addition, the speakers were:

Eldar Osmanov, project coordinator, chairman of the board of the NGO QIRI’M YOUNG

Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Felix Baumann, Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine

Victor Liakh, President of the Eastern Europe Foundation

Volodymir Tarchynskyy, Director of the Department of Temporarily Occupied Territories and Information Sovereignty of the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine

Abibulla Seit-Dzhelil, assistant at the Department of Turkic Studies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Suleiman Mamutov, Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Alim Aliiev, Deputy General Director of the Ukrainian Institute, founder of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary competition Crimean Fig

Mustafa Ametov, Chairman of the Public Union Institute for the Development of the Crimean Tatar Language

We remind you that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center sincerely supports the organization QIRI’M YOUNG, which has begun work on the project of the National Corpus of the Crimean Tatar language. Back in December 2022, the CTRC handed over 2 translations of international documents in the Crimean Tatar language – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

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