What is Krymchak Language?

Information about Krymchak Language

Krymchak (кърымчах тыль?)
Spoken in:	Crimea
Region:
Total speakers:	about 100
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ISO 639-1
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The Krymchak language (кърымчах тыльы) is the language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people. It is often considered to be a Crimean Tatar dialect. The language is sometimes referred to as Judeo-Crimean Tatar.

Like most Jewish languages, it contains a large number of Hebrew loanwords. Before the Soviet era it was written using Hebrew characters. In the Soviet Union in the 1930s this language was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a variant of the Latin alphabet), like Crimean Tatar and Karaim). Now it is written in Cyrillic script.

The community was decimated during the Holocaust. When in May 1944 almost all Crimean Tatars were deported to Soviet Uzbekistan, many speakers of Krymchak were among them, and some remained in Uzbekistan. Nowadays the language is almost extinct. According to the Ukrainian census of 2001, less than 300 Krymchak people remain in Crimea, and just about a hundred people still can speak the language.

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Ethnologue report

Jewish Languages

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Afro-Asiatic

'''Hebrew

eras:

Biblical | Mishnaic | Medieval | Modern

dialects:

Judeo-Aramaic (Aramaic):

Judeo-Arabic (Arabic):

Other:

Cushitic: Kayla | Qwara

Berber: Judeo-Berber

Indo-European

Yiddish (Germanic)

dialects:

Eastern | Western | Litvish | Poylish | Ukrainish

argots:

Klezmer-loshn

Jewish English:

Yeshivish | Yinglish

Judeo-Romance (Romance):

Judeo-Persian (Iranian):

Other:

Yevanic (Hellenic) | Knaanic (Slavic) | Judo-Marathi (Indo-Aryan)

Turkic	Dravidian	Kartvelian
Krymchak \| Karaim	Judeo-Malayalam	Gruzinic

• • [ e] Altaic languages
Turkic languages • Mongolic languages • Tungusic languages • Japonic languages* • Korean language*
Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not generally recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. A hypothetical language family that would include both the Japonic languages and Korean is sometimes referred to as the Buyeo language family.

• • [ e] Turkic languages
Oghur	Bulgar† \| Chuvash \| Hunnic† \| Khazar† \| Turkic Avar†
Uyghur	Old Turkic† \| Aini\| Chagatay† \| Ili Turki \| Lop \| Uyghur \| Uzbek
Kypchak	Baraba \| Bashkir \| Crimean Tatar \| Cuman† \| Karachay-Balkar \| Karaim \| Karakalpak \| Kazakh \| Kipchak† \| Krymchak \| Kumyk \| Nogai \| Old Tatar† \| Tatar \| Urum \| Altay \| Kyrgyz
Oghuz	Afshar \| Azerbaijani \| Crimean Tatar \| Gagauz \| Khorasani Turkish \| Ottoman Turkish† \| Pecheneg† \| Qashqai \| Salar \| Turkish \| Turkmen \| Urum
Arghu	Khalaj
Northeastern	Chulym \| Dolgan \| Fuy Grgs \| Khakas \| Northern Altay \| Shor \| Tofa \| Tuvan \| Western Yugur \| Sakha/Yakut
Notes: Listed in more than one group, Mixed language, Disputed, †Extinct

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