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Time to teach people smth new based on historical and scientifical facts. When we say 'Tatar, some Mari Russian people from Volga federal district in central Russia feel like they are involved. Its not like that, hell not like that for Crimean Tatars especially.
So let us summarize the story:
when Slavs of Kievan Rus (Ukrainians not Moscowy) removed Khazarian Turks, the Slavic and Italian colonist people became more prominent in southern Ukraine and Crimea. Things changed when Batu Khan founded the Golden Horde and started to invade Eastern Europe. He favored Turkic groups against Slavs. Berke who became great Khan after him converted and then Seljuk Sultan of Rum married his daughter to him. In return, Berke favored and even called Anatolian Turks (Oghuz or Turkmen tribal peoples) settle in Crimea and south Ukraine.
The Crimean Tatar, Alan W. Fisher, Part One: The Crimean Tatar Khanate, Chapter I: The origins of the Crimean Tatar Khanate
So these people are Turkic Kipchak mostly and speak Kipchak. However mutual intelligibility is strong with modern Turkish as result of Turkmen settlers from 13th century marked the language spoken in south (by 'Yaliboylu Tatars,) with Turkish.And in the 19th century, considering different dialects spoken among Crimean Tatars the intellectuals among them favored the Turkish-influenced dialect not to lose ties with Anatolian Turks. And the dialect of Yaliboylus is today what you know as Crimean Tatar language.
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