The Crimean dialect of the Karaite language ( Qaray tili , the traditional Karaite name - Leshon Tatar ( Heb. לשון טטר - “the language of the Tatars” [1] )) is the language of the Karaites of Crimea . It belongs to the Kypchak group of Turkic languages ( Polovtsian-Kypchak subgroup ).
| Crimean dialect of Karaite language | |
|---|---|
| Self name | Qarayi tili, Leshon Tatar |
| Country |  Ukraine /  Russia  Republic of Crimea |
| Regions | Crimea |
| Total number of speakers | 50 |
| Status | Serious threat |
| Classification | |
| Category | Languages of Eurasia |
Altai languages (controversial)
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| Writing | Cyrillic |
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The language of the Karaites of Crimea is in fact an ethno-lecture of the Crimean Tatar , coinciding with the middle dialect of the Crimean Tatar language , with the exception of the Hebrew words and expressions related to religious life . Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was called Tatar, both Russian [2] and Karaite [3] [4] authors. It differs markedly from the dialects of the Karaites of Lithuania and Western Ukraine, called the Lashon Kedar Karaites ( Hebrew לשון קדר - “the language of nomads” [5] ). Despite this, with the emergence of the Karaite national movement , due to the "ethnic, cultural and religious unity of the Karaites", it was not considered as a dialect of the Crimean Tatar, but as one of the three (along with the Trakai and Lutsk-Galich ) dialects of the Karaim language .
See also
- Karaim language
- Krymchak language
Notes
- ↑ Names and names of subscribers to the book “Targum Torah be-leson Tatars” ( Translation of the Torah into the Crimean-Karaim language). 1841, Evpatoria. // Moscow Karaites website
- ↑ Quote: "... We note only that the adverb of the Tatar language, which Russian Karaites speak, does not contain the slightest mixture of Hebrew words, phrases, or any other traces of the language that their ancestors should have spoken if these ancestors were the Jews. " Published in: Grigoriev, V. V. Jewish religious sects in Russia. // Journal of the Ministry of the Interior. - SPb., 1846. Part 15. - P. 11-49. Reissued in: V. Grigoriev. Russia and Asia . St. Petersburg, 1876. - p. 435
- ↑ Quotation: “... Currently, the Crimean Karaites in the Tatar language are being supplanted by the Russian language, so the younger generation, especially in extra-Crimean cities, almost does not understand it, and in the Crimea itself it is used in domestic life only in poor, few cultural families. ". Kazas I. I. General notes about Karaites // Karaite life. - M., 1911. - Prince. 3-4, August-September. - pp. 37-72
- ↑ Quote: “... None of the historical facts known so far from the life of the Karaites provides incontrovertible evidence that the Turkish-Tatar language that is commonly used today among the Karaites is their native language, for example. Russian is for those peoples of the Slavic tribe who inhabit a large part of the Russian Empire, French for the French, Japanese for the Japanese, etc. On the contrary in history you can pick up facts that give, albeit indirect, indications that in the times far from us, the wild hordes of the Tatars took possession of our peaceful ancestors and that under their influence a violent or voluntary replacement of our native ancient biblical language by the Tatar occurred ... ”. David M. Kokizov Russian or Tatar // Karaite life. - M., 1911. - Kn.2 ,, July. - p. 34-36
- ↑ Tatyana Schegolev. Karaites of Crimea: history and current state of the community. Magazine "Jews of Eurasia" No. 1 (8) January - March 2005 (not available link) . The date of circulation is November 10, 2013. Archived on March 27, 2014.