@article{f8deee7e-fbf4-4137-94fb-1ba3db3ecb50, author = {Michał Németh}, title = {<p> A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect</p>}, journal = {Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis}, volume = {2014}, year = {2014}, doi = {10.4467/20834624SL.14.021.2728}, issn = {1897-1059}, pages = {353-369},keywords = {western Karaim; historical phonology of Karaim; vowel harmony; consonant harmony in north-western Karaim}, abstract = {<div id="cke_pastebin" style="text-align: justify;"> This article is an attempt to establish the time-frame and relative chronology of the evolution of consonant harmony in north-western Karaim. The sample material used for the present article comes from a Karaim handwritten Torah translation dating back to 1720 (the oldest analysed Western Karaim Bible translation), copied in Kukizów by Simcha ben Chananiel and written in the Karaim semi-cursive variant of the Hebrew script. Additionally, in the present article an attempt is made to describe step by step how the harmony shift operated.</div>}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/a-historical-phonology-of-western-karaim-the-evolution-of-consonant-harmony-in-the-north-western-dialect} }