Yaliboyu Tatars

The Yalıboylu (Crimean Tatar: sg. Yalıboylu, pl. Yalıboylular) are an ethnic group of Crimean Tatars who have traditionally lived along the southern shore (Crimean Tatar: Yalı boyu) of the Crimean peninsula, hence their name: Yalıboylu means "coastal dwellers" in the Crimean Tatar language. They have lost they traditional settlement during Stalin's ethnic cleansing of Crimea in 1943-1944 (see Deportation of Crimean Tatars). The Yalıboylu dialect belongs to Oghuz languages and is very close to the Turkish language. According to the Soviet anthropologist of the early 20th centrury B.Kuftin, spoke "almost pure southern-Turkish" .^[1]