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Krymchak
Sign in to saveAlso known as Krymchak language, Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Krimchak, Chagatai, Dzhagatay
language
Key facts
- Native to
- Crimea , Israel , Turkey
- Ethnicity
- 1,800 Krymchaks (2007)
- Native speakers
- 200 (2007)
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak– Cuman Krymchak
- Writing system
- Cyrillic alphabet , Latin script , Hebrew script
- Recognised minority language in
- Ukraine
- Iso 639 3
- jct
- Glottolog
- krym1236
- Elp
- Krymchak
- Linguasphere
- part of 44-AAB-a
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon
A searchable database of lexical items in the Turkic languages
turkic.elegantlexicon.com →312 entries in lexical database. Click here for all forms in the database. Krymchak is a member of the areal Crimean Turkic conglomeration. For further details about the mixture that makes up that language, see that page. Polinsky, Maria. 1992. “Crimean Tatar and Krymchak: classification and description.” In Howard I. Aronson (ed.) The non-Slavic languages of the USSR: linguistic studies: new series , 157-188.
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 785
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Krymchak (/ˈkrɪmtʃæk/ KRIM-chak; кърымчах тыльы, Qrımçah tılyı; also called Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Krimchak, Chagatai, Dzhagatay) is a moribund Turkic language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people. The Krymchak community was composed of Jewish immigrants who arrived from all over Europe and Asia and who continuously added to the Krymchak population. The Krymchak language, as well as culture and daily life, was similar to Crimean Tatar, the peninsula's majority population, with the addition of a significant Hebrew influence.
Like most Jewish languages, it contains many Hebrew loanwords. Before the Soviet era, it was written using Hebrew characters. In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a variant of the Latin script), like Crimean Tatar and Karaim. Now it is written in the Cyrillic script.