TY - JOUR AU - Németh, Michał TI - <p> A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect</p> JF - Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis VL - 2014 PY - 2014 DO = 10.4467/20834624SL.14.021.2728 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 353 EP - 369 KW - western Karaim KW - historical phonology of Karaim KW - vowel harmony KW - consonant harmony in north-western Karaim N2 - <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> 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