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A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect

Publication date: 22.12.2014

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2014, Volume 131, Issue 4, pp. 353 - 369

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.14.021.2728

Authors

Michał Németh
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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Titles

A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect

Abstract

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.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2014, Volume 131, Issue 4, pp. 353 - 369

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect

English:

A historical phonology of Western Karaim. The evolution of consonant harmony in the North-Western dialect

Authors

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 22.12.2014

Article status: Open

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Michał Németh (Author) - 100%

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