Opacity in Crimean Tatar: The Interaction of Vowel Harmony and Syncope
Journal: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Year: 2012

&lt;p&gt;The sociolinguistic history of CT is complex and tragic, and the dialectological research is rather difficult. In 1944, all Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea by the Soviet government, mainly to Uzbekistan, but also to other places in the former Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and several locations in Russia (Fisher 1978). During the exile, the speakers of CT did not generally live in communities corresponding to their dialects and were surrounded by other Turkic l