Trakai Karaim
Facts
- Language: Trakai Karaim
- Alternate names: Qarayče, Qaray tili, Karay, Karaite, Northwestern Karaim
- Language code: dkdrt
- Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Kipchak, West Kipchak
- Dialect of: Karaim
- Number of speakers: 20
- Script:
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Introduction
The Trakai dialect of Karaim is unusual in that it exhibits consonant harmony, rather than vowel harmony. That is, all consonants in a word are either palatalized or not. The result is that there is no front back distinction in vowels aside from the first syllable, for example:
- suv-dan "water-abl"
- kʼuń-dʼań "day-abl"