From: Harald Hammarstrom
Message: 26822
Date: 2003-11-02
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:I used to study for the one woman who tries to document and study the
> > 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>