Karaim

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A language of Lithuania

ISO 639-3
kdr
Alternate Names
Turkic Karaite
Population

50 in Lithuania (Salminen 2007). Population total all countries: 56. Ethnic population: 270.

Location

Trakai and a few other places.

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Language Status

8b (Nearly extinct).

Classification
Turkic, Western, Ponto-Caspian
Dialects

Trakay (Trakai). Reportedly similar to Karachay [krc] and Kumyk [kum].

Language Development
Dictionary. OT: 1842.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Karaim
Writing

Cyrillic script [Cyrl], used in Crimea. Latin script [Latn], used in Lithuania.

Other Comments

No remaining speakers in Israel. Jewish (Karaite).

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