Karaim
Facts
- Language: Karaim
- Alternate names: Karaite, Karaïm
- Language code: kdr
- Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Kipchak, West Kipchak
- Dialects: Halych Karaim, Trakai Karaim, Crimean Karaim.
- Number of speakers: 500
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Cyrillic script, used in Crimea. Latin script, used in Lithuania.
More information:
No remaining speakers in Israel. Jewish (Karaite).
The Karaim language belongs to the Kipchak-Polovtsy group of Turkic languages. The closest related languages are Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar and Crimean Tatar. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire)