Samoilovich A.N. about the Crimea
Research on the Crimean Tatar language occupies an important place in scientific works of A.N. Samoilovich. Such problems as the place of the Crimean Tatar language in the classification of the Turkic languages as well as the degree of its convergence with the literary “Ottoman-Turkish” language play the leading role in his works and articles on this topic; special attention is paid to the problem of delineation of various dialects of the Crimean Tatar language. The Crimean Tatar language and its dialects were considered by A.N. Samoilovich not only as a source of linguistic information on the development of modern Turkic languages, but also as ethnographic and historical sources.