Karaim

karaim English Proper noun A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine. en 1981 Bernard Comrie The Languages of the Soviet Union 2 At times the discrepancy can be even greater: only 12.8% of the Karaim, a Turkic-speaking group living for the most part in Lithuania, declared Karaim as their native language. en 2001 Éva Ágnes Csató Syntactic code-copying in Karaim The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact Östen Dahl; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1 9027230579 271 For more than six hundred years, Karaim has been spoken as a community language in what is today Lithuania. Translations Kipchak Turkic language with Aramaic and Persian influences Finnish: fi karaiimi German: de Karaimisch n, de Karaïmisch n Kazakh: kk қарайым тілі Polish: pl karaimski m Turkish: tr Karayca, tr Karaimce Uzbek: uz qaraim tili Noun s * A member of an ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe which traditionally spoke this (Turkic) language and practiced Karaite Judaism. 1970, Alan W. Fisher, The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772-1783 0521076811, page 120: He began to develop closer relations with his Karaim subjects and issued a charter to a Karaim named Iosif to try again to establish a mint. The Karaim Rabbi wrote that after the Christians had left, en 1998 Lars Johanson The Turkic Languages 8 0415082005 The term Karaim refers to both a people and to a religious system. Karaims are believers in the Old Testament but consider themselves to be of Turkic ethnic origin. They have traditionally used the Hebrew alphabet for writing their language, en rare en Karaim col p. 1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union, pages 2, 47 and 49: At times the discrepancy can be even greater: only 12.8% of the Karaim, a Turkic-speaking group living for the most part in Lithuania, declared Karaim as their native language. the Karaim, who are by religion (though not ethnically) Jews, a unique survival of the adoption of Judaism as the official religion of the Khazar empire The Karaim are being rapidly assimilated, ethnically and especially linguistically, to the surrounding Russian population. en 2004 Jonathan Bousfield Baltic States 102 1858288401 The KaraimA Turkic-speaking group practising a branch of Judaism, the Karaim are thought to be descended from the Khazars, a central Asian people who held sway over a steppe empire stretching between the Black and Caspian seas en rare A Karaite especially an Eastern or Central European, Turkic-speaking one. 1882 January 9, Wickham Hoffman, in a letter to Mr. Frelinghuysen, published in the Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress, 1882-'83, page 44: He added that he was not "one of those Talmud Jews"; that he belonged to the American Reformed Church, known in Russia as the Karaim Jews. As soon as General Kosloff understood that Moses was a Karaim Jew, he told the consul-general to send the man to him the next morning Translations member of the ethnic group which traditionally spoke Karaim German: de Karaime m, de Karaimin f, de Karaïme m, de Karaïmin f Kazakh: kk қарайым Ukrainian: uk караї́м m, uk караї́мка f collective plural of Karaim German: de Karaim m-p, de Karaïm m-p Karaite (especially a Crimean, Turkic one) German: de Karaime m, de Karaimin f, de Karaïme m, de Karaïmin f See also en Karaism, en Qaraism en Karaitism, en Qaraitism Further reading tpi Anagrams en aaikmr Kamari Makira en Languages