Southwest (Halich) Karaim

Authors : Eva A Csató

Pages : 163-176

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Publication Date : 2023-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper presents two texts in the Halich Karaim language, which is today practically extinct. Karaim is the common denomination of the Kipchak Turkic varieties once spoken in the religious communities of Eastern European Karaites in today’s Lithuania, Ukraine, and Crimea. Their Mosaic confession is based on reading the Hebrew Bible. The recordings were made in the 1990s in the framework of a research project financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Cologne. The texts are presented in a Turcological transcription of Johanson (2021) with morphological glosses and English translation. Selected specific features of the variety are briefly described and illustrated with examples from the texts.
Keywords : Karayca, yok olma tehlikesi altındaki dil, Kıpçak Türkçesi, dil belgelenmesi, Karay dini