Krymchak language

Krymchak is the Crimean Tatar dialect spoken by the Krymchaks - Rabbanite Jews of the Crimea. Another name for the language is Judæo-Tartar or Judæo-Crimean-Tatar.

Related Topics:
Crimean Tatar - Krymchak - Rabbanite - Jew - Crimea

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Like most Jewish languages, it is written using Hebrew characters, and contains large numbers of Hebrew loanwords. In Soviet Union at the 1930s this language was written in a variant of Latin alphabet - Uniform Turkic Alphabet (as Crimean Tatar and Karaim), later it was written in Cyrillic.

Related Topics:
Hebrew characters - Hebrew - Loanword - Soviet Union - 1930s - Latin alphabet - Uniform Turkic Alphabet - Crimean Tatar - Karaim - Cyrillic

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The community was decimated during the Holocaust. The majority of its speakers now reside in Israel; a few thousand remain in the Ukraine and Russia.

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