page_title: Crimean Tatar alphabet
section_title: The Arabic Script
hierarchical_section_title: Crimean Tatar alphabet / History / The Arabic Script
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Речь товарища Шлихтера на праздновании "пятилетия освобождения Крыма"English: Comrade [Shlikhter]'s speech during the celebration of " the five-year period of the release Of [kryma]"
context_page_description: For the modern Crimean Tatar language, the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets are used. The Latin script dominates on the Internet and the Cyrillic script in printed productions. Historically, the Arabic script was also used.
context_section_description: Crimean Tatars used the Arabic script from 16th century to 1928 when it was replaced with the Latin alphabet based on Yañalif. The Crimean variant contained a couple of modified Arabic letters.
  ¹ — The letter ﻙ (kef) was often used in place of ﮒ and ﯓ.
caption: An example of Crimean Tatar Arabic script.
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