Crimean Tatar alphabet
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. History. Arabic script. 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. Latin alphabet. In 1928, during latinisation in the Soviet Union the Crimean Tatar Arabic alphabet was replaced by the Latin alphabet based on the Yañalif script. This  alphabet contained a number of differences from the modern variant. Particularly, in letters Ь ь, Ƣ ƣ, N̡ ᶇ, Ɵ ɵ, X x, Ƶ ƶ, I i instead of modern Â â, Ğ ğ, I ı, İ i, Ñ ñ, Ö ö, and Ü ü. Modern alphabets. Cyrillic. Cyrillic for Crimean Tatar was introduced in 1938 as part of Cyrillization of languages in Soviet Union. It is based on Russian alphabet with no special letters. From 1938 to 1990s, that was the only alphabet used for Crimean Tatar. <nowiki>*</nowiki>"Гъ" ("ğ"), "къ" ("q"), "нъ" ("ñ") and "дж" ("c") are separate  letters of the alphabet (digraphs). Latin. Modern Latin alphabet for Crimean Tatar was introduced in 1990s. It is based on Turkish alphabet with three special letters — Q, Ñ, Â. Its official use in Crimea was accepted in 1997 by Crimean Parliament. In 2021 it was approved by the government of Ukraine, to be adopted in education by September 2025. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Ââ is not recognized as separate letter. It is used to show softness of a consonant followed by Aa. 1. Crimean Tatars in Dobruja use also Ĭĭ and Ww letters. Ĭ ĭ letter is for [ɪ] and the  W w letter is for [w] sound. Crimean Tatars in Crimea use the İ i letter for two sounds [ɪ] and [i], the letter V v is also two sounds [w] and [v], but in Dobrudja has every letter one sound, İ i is [i] and V v is [v].