TY - JOUR TI - A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect AU - Németh, Michał TI - A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect AB - 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. VL - 2014 IS - Volume 131, Issue 4 PY - 2014 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 353 EP - 369 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.14.021.2728 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/a-historical-phonology-of-western-karaim-the-evolution-of-consonant-harmony-in-the-north-western-dialect KW - western Karaim KW - historical phonology of Karaim KW - vowel harmony KW - consonant harmony in north-western Karaim