%0 Journal Article
%T A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect
%A Németh, Michał
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2014
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.14.021.2728
%N Volume 131, Issue 4
%P 353-369
%K western Karaim, historical phonology of Karaim, vowel harmony, consonant harmony in north-western Karaim
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/a-historical-phonology-of-western-karaim-the-evolution-of-consonant-harmony-in-the-north-western-dialect
%X 
	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.