Dobrujan Tatar alphabet
Dobrujan Tatar written in the Latin script
Script type	Alphabet
Time period	1956 – present
Languages	Dobrujan Tatar
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Latin alphabet Dobrujan Tatar alphabet
Unicode
Unicode range	subset ofLatin (U+0000...U+024F)
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TheDobrujan Tatar alphabet is the writing system ofDobrujan Tatar.^[1] Since 1956Dobrujan Tatar uses this alphabet,^[2] including the lettersÁ,Ç,Ğ,Í,Î,Ñ,Ó,Ş andÚ.^[2][3][4]

Tatar spoken in Romania has two distinct facets existing, interweaving and forming together the literary Tatar language "edebiy Tatarğa". One of these aspects is the authentic Tatar called "ğalpî Tatarğa" or "ğalpak Tatarğa" and the other is the academic Tatar language called "muwallímatça".^[5]

• Academic Tatar language, means writing and pronouncing Arabic and Persian neologisms - occurring mostly in science, religion, literature, arts or politics - in their original form.

• Authentic Tatar language, means writing and pronouncing words, including those of Arabic and Persian origin, by strictly adapting them to the own phonetic system.

Naturalization is shifting the spelling of academic speech sounds to authentic sounds following the patterns below, where a greater-than sign indicates that one sound changes to another.^[5]

f > p
v > w
v > b
ç > ş
ç > j
h > (skip over)
h > k
h > y
h > w

There is a total of 10 letters used to represent determinant sounds of which 9 mark authentic determinant sounds: a, e, i, î, í, o, ó, u, ú while the letter á is used for an academic vowel. The writing system registers authentic consonants with 17 letters:b, ç, d, g, ğ, j, k, l, m, n, ñ, p, r, s, ş, t, z and has three signs standing for the academic consonants: f, h, v. There are also two authentic semivowels: y, w. An old authentic Turkic consonant, the sound /ç/ represented by the letter⟨Ç⟩ is rarely heard because authentic speakers of Tatar spoken in Dobruja spell it /ş/ as letter⟨Ş⟩. As the written language most often follows the spoken language shifting ⟨Ç⟩ to ⟨Ş⟩, the result is that in Tatar spoken in Romania letter ⟨Ç⟩ and sound /ç/ are often treated as academic.^[5]

The group of lettersaá does not symbolize two adjacent vowels, being a writing convention that shows that the reading is done according to the first vowel in the group and the inflection of the word is done according to the second vowel in the group. For example, the reading of the wordkaár "care" is identical to that ofkar "snow", but in the ablative case they will becomekaárden "of/from care", respectivelykardan "of/from snow". The group of lettersáa must be treated similarly. For example, the wordnikáa "wedding" is read as "niká" and its dative will benikáaga "to/to the wedding".

In 1956 were the discussions about the alphabet problems ofDobrujan Tatar, which was regulated by Vladimir Drîmba, a well-knownTurkologist, including other professors and teachers.^[2] The result was 33 letters, 10 of them vowels and 23 consonants. It was used inUniversity of Bucharest, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.^[3][6][5] The letter "Ç ç" is to see as "Č č" in the document of alphabet discussions, also "Ğ ğ" is more like "Ǧ ǧ".^[2] But they did appear as "Ç ç" and "Ğ ğ" in the grammar books.^[6] There was actually also the letter "Ţ ţ" (name:ţe).^[2] The letter "Ţ ţ" was originally an academic letter representing the soundvoiceless alveolar affricate [ts] and naturalized to authentic as [s] "S s".^[7] It is calculated that the letter "Ţ ţ" is fully naturalized to "S s", probably by Şukran Vuap-Mocanu in 1985,^[8] this means the words, which needed to be written with "Ţ ţ" are only written in authentic.

Arabic script forTurkic languages was used since the 10th century byKara Khanids. Dobrujan Tatar did use a variant ofChagatai alphabet. It was the same version asOttoman Turkish alphabet. The writerTaner Murat, along with some others, revived theArabic script, he did use it in sometranslations and did also maketransliterations toArabic script.Taner Murat did write in a different way from the traditional version. He did marked the vowels all the time byArabic diacritics,^[9] likeXiao'erjing and different writing signs were used. Some letters unique to Arabic, were in the works ofTaner Murat mostly replaced by other letters. The journal "Nazar Look" (نَظَرْ لُوقٌ‎), which was founded byTaner Murat, did also have a logo withArabic script.

1 — Only between hard vowels (a, î, o, u).

• Shaddah (ـّ‎) is used for lettergemination.

The vowels are created with theharakats (ـَ / ـِ / ـُ‎) also with small-alif (ـٰ / ـٖ‎), the long vowels are represented by «ـَا / ـِی / ـُو‎». The long vowels loose there function only when they are fallowed by «ـَ‎» and are withoutsukun (ـْ‎), these‌ (ـَا / ـَى / ـَو‎) are readed as „a“. The exceptional long vowels (aa, ee, ii) can be made by addingmaddah (ـٓ‎) on the long vowel (ـَآ / ـِیٓ‎). The letter «ا‎» or «ء‎» [randomly] is used as a initial letter when the vowel is the first letter of the word. Also when a vowel is fallowed by a vowel or when «ـِ‎» is fallowed byshaddah (ـّ‎), «ا‎» is written.

Vowels as a first letter of the word

Vowels in middle and end of the word

Long vowels

• Sometimes is Tanwin mute, when it replaces Sukun, mostly end of the sentence, headline, or single word.

There is aCyrillic alphabet designed forDobrujan Tatar byTaner Murat, including the letters Ә ә, Җ җ, Ң ң, Ө ө, Ў ў, Ү ү, І і.^[4] It was also used intranslations withtransliteration.^[4]

Dobrujan Tatar has a version ofOld Turkic script, which is designed byTaner Murat. It was also used intranslations withtransliteration.^[4]

• The vowels are mostly in begin and middle of the word not written.

• Dobrujan Tatar Latin-Cyrillic Transliterator

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