Karaim Language

Information about Karaim Language

Karaim (къарай тили, karaj tili)
Spoken in:	Crimea
Region:
Total speakers:	about 100
Ranking:
Genetic classification:
Official status
Official language of:
Regulated by:
Language codes
ISO 639-1
ISO 639-2	tut
SIL
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The Karaim language (Crimean dialect: къарай тили, Trakai dialect: karaj tili) is a Turkic language with Hebrew influences, in a similar manner to Yiddish or Ladino. It is spoken by Crimean Karaites (also known as Karaims and Qarays) - ethnic Turkic adherents of Karaite Judaism in Crimea, Lithuania, Poland and western Ukraine. It has very few remaining active speakers. The three main dialects are those of Crimea, Trakai-Vilnius and Lutsk-Halych.

In Crimea Karaim is written in Cyrillic script, while in Trakai a variant of the Latin alphabet is in use.

The Lithuanian dialect of Karaim is spoken mainly in the town of Trakai (also known as Troki) by a small community. Trakai is a former capital of Lithuania, and Crimean Karaites were brought there by Grand Duke Vytautas in 1397-1398 to defend the castle. There is a chance the language will survive in Trakai as a result of official support as well as its appeal to tourists. Currently in Trakai there is a museum about the Karaite community, as well as Karaite cuisine restaurants. People from the community take part in some special holidays held in Trakai, and sometimes it is interpreted that the new coat of arms of Trakai depicts a Karaite.

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• • [ e] Altaic languages
Turkic languages • Mongolic languages • Tungusic languages • Japonic languages* • Korean language*
Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not generally recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. A hypothetical language family that would include both the Japonic languages and Korean is sometimes referred to as the Buyeo language family.

• • [ e] Turkic languages
Oghur	Bulgar† \| Chuvash \| Hunnic† \| Khazar† \| Turkic Avar†
Uyghur	Old Turkic† \| Aini\| Chagatay† \| Ili Turki \| Lop \| Uyghur \| Uzbek
Kypchak	Baraba \| Bashkir \| Crimean Tatar \| Cuman† \| Karachay-Balkar \| Karaim \| Karakalpak \| Kazakh \| Kipchak† \| Krymchak \| Kumyk \| Nogai \| Old Tatar† \| Tatar \| Urum \| Altay \| Kyrgyz
Oghuz	Afshar \| Azerbaijani \| Crimean Tatar \| Gagauz \| Khorasani Turkish \| Ottoman Turkish† \| Pecheneg† \| Qashqai \| Salar \| Turkish \| Turkmen \| Urum
Arghu	Khalaj
Northeastern	Chulym \| Dolgan \| Fuy Grgs \| Khakas \| Northern Altay \| Shor \| Tofa \| Tuvan \| Western Yugur \| Sakha/Yakut
Notes: Listed in more than one group, Mixed language, Disputed, †Extinct

Motto
Процветание в единстве (Russian)
Protsvetanie v edinstve
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Afrikaans Die Taalkommissie, South Africa
Arabic Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية, Syria, Egypt, Jordan,
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ISO 639 is the set of international standards that lists short codes for language names.

ISO 639 consists of different parts, of which two parts have been approved and a third part that is in the final approval (FDIS) stage. The other parts are works in progress.
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in
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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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List of languages by name
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Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are traditionally considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.
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Hebrew}}}
Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad
Official status
Official language of: Israel
Regulated by: Academy of the Hebrew Language

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Yiddish}}}
Writing system: uses a Hebrew-based alphabet
Official status
Official language of: Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia (de jure only); officially recognized minority language in Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel and Moldova
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Ladino/Judæo-Spanish}}}
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: Alliance Israelite Universelle
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: lad
ISO 639-3: lad

Ladino
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The Crimean Karaites (Crimean Karaim: sg. къарай - qaray, pl. къарайлар - qaraylar; Trakai Karaim: sg. karaj, pl.
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Turkic peoples are a group of peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. These peoples share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds.
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Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish movement characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmud) as halakha (Legally Binding, i.e., required religious practice).
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Motto
Процветание в единстве (Russian)
Protsvetanie v edinstve
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Motto
"Tautos jėga vienybėje"
"The strength of the nation lies in unity"
Anthem
Tautiška giesmė

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Motto
none¹
Anthem
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (Polish)
Dąbrowski's Mazurek
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Anthem
Ще не вмерла України ні слава, ні воля
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Trakai (Polish: Troki) is a town and lake resort in Lithuania, a part of Trakai National Park territory and an administrative centre of the region. The town covers 11.52 km² of area and is inhabitated by 5,406 people.
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Vilnius (/span>]]^{?· i}; also known by alternative names) is the largest city and the capital of Lithuania, with a population of 553,904 (850,700 together with Vilnius County) as of December 2005.
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Luts’k
Луць?

Coat of arms
Location
Map of Ukraine with Lutsk highlighted.

Government
Country
Oblast
Raion Ukraine
Volyn Oblast
Lutskyo Raion

Founded 1085
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Halych
Jackdaw on Galicia's coat-of-arms alludes to the name "Halych"
Coordinates:
Oblast (province) Ivano-Frankivsk
Population
- City 4,600 Halych (Ukrainian:
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Cyrillic alphabet

Sister systems Latin alphabet
Coptic alphabet
Armenian
Unicode range U+0400 to U+052F
ISO 15924 Cyrl

Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

Note
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The Crimean Karaites (Crimean Karaim: sg. къарай - qaray, pl. къарайлар - qaraylar; Trakai Karaim: sg. karaj, pl.
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Vytautas the Great (Lithuanian: Vytautas Didysis (help info ) ; Belarusian: Vitaŭt; Ruthenian: Vitovt; Latin:
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13rd century - 14th century - 15th century
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