On Tuesday, February 21, on the day of the native language, the manager of the CTRC Zarema Bariieva took part in the event Literary and artistic holiday Mother tongue – the heart of my breath as part of the cultural and artistic project Languages are different – the soul is one, organized by the Valentyn Atamanovskyy Vinnytsia Regional Universal scientific library.
Zarema Bariieva informed the participants of the event about the situation of the Crimean Tatar language. She noted that for more than 50 years the Crimean Tatar language was forgotten and representatives of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine did not have the opportunity to develop it, so it was included in the UNESCO list of endangered languages.
“Despite the fact that today the Crimean Tatar language is considered official in Crimea, the scope of its use is limited. The occupiers constantly change the status of schools or try to close one or another national school for various reasons so that children do not have the opportunity to learn their native language”,- she added.
The CTRC manager also spoke about the activities of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center in the field of protecting the language of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine. She said that in 2019 and 2021, the CTRC experts translated two international documents: the Common Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights to develop the sectoral legal Crimean Tatar language.