Endangered Languages Project

The Karaim language belongs to the Kipchak-Polovtsy group of Turkic languages. The closest related languages are Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar and Crimean Tatar. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire)

Alias		Karaite, Karaïm
KLASSIFIZIERUNG		Turkic, Kipchak
ORTHGRAFIE		Cyrillic script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
SPRACHENCODE		kdr
VARIANTEN & DIALEKTE		Trakay Galits Eastern Karaim Northwestern Karaim
DOWNLOAD		Als csv
WEITERE RESSOURCEN		OLAC-Suche

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Informationen von: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

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500
Muttersprachler weltweit

DATUM DER INFORMATION: 1989

VERBREITUNG

ORTE: Crimea, Poland, Lithuania

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Ethnische Population
3,341

DATUM DER INFORMATION: 1979

NUTZUNGSBEREICHE

VERBREITUNG

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

Karaim is used when speakers do not want to be understood by other people, and is the language of ritual.

ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN

Hebrew; Crimean Tartar; Russian ; Lithuanian ; Ukrainian

Skripte (Schreibsysteme und Orthografien)

Cyrillic script

Rechtschreibung

Today there is no written language; various literary traditions used competing scripts for religious texts

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Karaim speakers are dispersed in the Caucasus, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Stark gefährdet

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
56
Muttersprachler weltweit

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3
Muttersprachler weltweit

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,130
Muttersprachler weltweit
MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER
1,010 in Ukraine (2006 A. Goraianov). 1,000 in Crimea; 12 Lutzk-Halych in Western Ukraine. Population total all countries: 1,130. Ethnic population: 5,000 in Lithuania

ORTE: Lithuania; Ukraine;

		2007	Europe and North Asia	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	211-282	C. Moseley	London & New York: Routledge			Tapani Salminen	Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD		500	1989	100-999				Critically Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15			Crimea, Poland, Lithuania
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.															54.6666666667,24.9166666667
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub		1,130		1000-9999	1,010 in Ukraine (2006 A. Goraianov). 1,000 in Crimea; 12 Lutzk-Halych in Western Ukraine. Population total all countries: 1,130. Ethnic population: 5,000 in Lithuania			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Lithuania; Ukraine;
	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		56		10-99				Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)						50.7538,25.3351
			World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			3		1-9				Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
9985-936922		1993	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire			Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits			http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook		"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.		3,341		1979			Hebrew was the language used in scripture and is still used in religious services	Hebrew; Crimean Tartar; Russian ; Lithuanian ; Ukrainian	Critically Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	Karaim is used when speakers do not want to be understood by other people, and is the language of ritual.	15		Karaim speakers are dispersed in the Caucasus, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Karaim

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500

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Stark gefährdet

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56

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3

Bedroht

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1,130

Diskussion

Karaim

Metadaten der Sprache

Sprachdokumentationsforum

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60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

500

Ernsthaft gefährdet

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

Stark gefährdet

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

56

Ernsthaft gefährdet

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,130

Diskussion

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