Re: Question

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:

> PS: Along with the *Turkish* speaking Karaites, there were
> other Judaized Turks as well: some Couman groups, some Crimea
> Tatar groups, some Caucasian Turks, i.e. "mountain Jews"...
> But no Turkish group remained as continuing to speak the
> turanic idiom, except for the Karaites (I don't know whether
> in the 20th c. they ceased to speak Turkish and replace it
> with Yiddish. Gotta Google. :-)

George,

Perhaps some Karaites did speak *Turkish*, but the language I was
referring to was Karaim, a *Turkic* language, but not Turkish.
Ethnologue classifies it was a member of the Ponto-Caspian group. See
<http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=709>

Regards,
Ned Smith