Chinese Tatars speak an archaic variant of the Tatar language, free from 20th-century loanwords and use the Arabic variant of the Tatar alphabet, which declined in the USSR in the 1930s.
The Chinese Tatars communicate using a traditional form of the Tatar language that excludes modern loanwords and employ the Arabic script for Tatar. This script was less prevalent in the USSR by the 1930s.