Literature of the Polish Tatars
Journal: CeON Repository (Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science)
Year: 2011

The literature of Polish Tatars reflects their complicated history. A specific trait of the Polish­Lithuanian­Belarusian Tatar population is their use of Arabic script for the notation of their Slavic language as early as the 15th century. Originally Mongol, but Turkic speakers, they gave up their native language while retaining the Turko­Arabic script which they adapted to the language of the people to whom they paid allegiance. They lived, however, in the Polish­Lithuanian Commonwealth, and th