Murat Özşahin,
Ushak University,
Izmir str. 8.km., 1 September Campus 64200 Ushak/Turkey,
mozsahin35@hotmail.com.
The reviewed monograph provides a survey of the migration history and modern life of Tatars living in China. The Tatar language, which is kept and actively used in diaspora, and its grammar and lexical features are fully investigated and compared with the modern Tatar language, its dialects, language history and other kindred Turkic languages (Uigur, Kazakh) on the practical side. Models of folklore are introduced into scientific circulation.
The reviewer highly appreciates the research of language and folklore of the Tatar diaspora and emphasizes the source study importance of the monograph in studying of life, language and culture of the Tatars living in China.
Key words: the Tatars living in China, the Tatar diaspora, language, folklore, language features.