Crimean language
| Krimtschakisch (кърымчах тыльы) |
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Spoken in |
Crimea ( Ukraine ), Israel , Turkey  
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| speaker | 200 (2007) | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
jct |
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The Crimean Chak language (кърымчах тыльы) is a Turkic language spoken in Crimea by the ethnic-religious group of the Crimean Chaks . It was often considered a dialect of Crimean Tatar and was therefore also called Judaeo-Crimean Tatar .
Like many Jewish languages , it contains a large number of Hebrew loanwords . Before the Soviet era, at the time of the People's Republic of Crimea , it was written using the Hebrew alphabet . In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the language was written using the New Turkic Alphabet , a variant of the Latin alphabet , as were the Crimean Tatar and Karaim languages . Today it is written with the Cyrillic script .
The speaker community was severely decimated by the Holocaust . When almost all Crimean Tatars were deported to Soviet Uzbekistan in May 1944 , many speakers of the Crimean Chak language were among them, and many remained in Uzbekistan . Today the language is almost extinct. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, there are fewer than 785 Crimean Chaks living in the Crimea . Less than a hundred are still able to speak the language.
Language comparison Crimean - Turkish
As a Turkic language, Crimchak has a linguistic relationship with Turkish , so that oral and written communication is possible to some extent between the two languages. However, there are also numerous discrepancies between them, which can be explained by the fact that they belong to different groups.
The following table lists some terms from the Crimean and Turkish basic vocabulary to clarify the linguistic relationship:
| Crimean Chakish | Turkish | German |
| kılıç | kılıç | sword |
| arıslan | aslan | lion |
| yaka | yaka | collar |
| yulduz | yıldız | star |
| yaş | yaş | Age |
| yol | yol | path |
| kalkan | kalkan | sign |
| yanhı | yeni | New |
| yel | yel | wind |
| tülkü | tilki | Fox |
| sıçan | sıçan | mouse |
| imirtha | yumurta | egg |
| taş | taş | stone |
| altın | altın | gold |
| tengiz | deniz | lake |
| kumuş | gümüş | silver |
| ögüz | ecüz | Ox |
| koy | koyun | sheep |
| suv | see below | water |
| at | at | horse |
| agaç | ağaç | tree |
| yeşil | yeşil | green |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Krimtschakisch at Ethnologue
