In its activities, the team of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center makes every effort to preserve the language of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, because the Crimean Tatar language is on the UNESCO list of endangered languages.
So, how exactly does the CTRC contribute to the development and preservation of the Crimean Tatar language? We would like to remind you that thanks to the efforts of the CTRC team:
- In 2019, we translated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Crimean Tatar language and posted it for the first time on the official UN resource. Thus, the Declaration has a world record for the number of translations and is available in more than 520 languages, the Crimean Tatar translation being the 521st. Registration of a translation of a document in the Crimean Tatar language with the UN is a demonstration of the subjectivity of the Crimean Tatar people and commitment to the rule of law.
- In 2021, the CTRC translated the European Convention of Human Rights from English into the Crimean Tatar language. At the end of both conventions there is a dictionary of more than 200 terms in the Crimean Tatar language with translations into Ukrainian, Russian and English.
- The activities of the CTRC related to the translation of official international legal documents contribute to the development of the sectoral legal Crimean Tatar language.
- We would like to remind you that the materials on the CTRC website are also available in the Crimean Tatar language.
- For those who are just starting to learn the Crimean Tatar language, we recommend our weekly column Dictionary of the Crimean Tatar Language, within which we offer our readers the opportunity to quickly master the language of the indigenous people of Ukraine by studying several words and phrases per week.
The CTRC team is confident that language is not only a system of signs and rules with the help of which people communicate, but, above all, it is an identifier of a nation that needs to be preserved and developed.