Krymchak language

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Krymchak кърымчах тыльы
Spoken in:	Crimea
Total speakers:	about 100
Language family:	Altaic<ref>"[1] Ethnologue"</ref> (controversial) Turkic Kypchak Kypchak-Cuman Krymchak
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`to be added`
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	`jct`
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The Krymchak language (кърымчах тыльы) is the language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people. It is often considered to be a Crimean Tatar dialect. The language is sometimes referred to as Judeo-Crimean Tatar.

Like most Jewish languages, it contains a large number of Hebrew loanwords. Before the Soviet era it was written using Hebrew characters. In the Soviet Union in the 1930s this language was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a variant of the Latin alphabet), like Crimean Tatar and Karaim). Now it is written in Cyrillic script.

The community was decimated during the Holocaust. When in May 1944 almost all Crimean Tatars were deported to Soviet Uzbekistan, many speakers of Krymchak were among them, and some remained in Uzbekistan. Nowadays the language is almost extinct. According to the Ukrainian census of 2001, less then 300 Krymchak people remain in Crimea, and just about a hundred people still can speak the language.

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Ethnologue report

Jewish Languages

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Afro-Asiatic

Hebrew

eras:

Biblical | Mishnaic | Medieval | Modern

dialects:

Judeo-Aramaic (Aramaic):

Judeo-Arabic (Arabic):

Judeo-Iraqi | Judeo-Moroccan | Judeo-Yemenite | Judeo-Libyan | Judeo-Algerian

Other:

Cushitic: Kayla | Qwara

Berber: Judeo-Berber

Indo-European

Yiddish (Germanic)

dialects:

derivates:

Yeshivish | Yinglish

institutions:

YIVO | Yiddish Theater | National Yiddish Book Center

Judeo-Romance (Romance):

Judeo-Persian (Aryan):

Other:

Yevanic (Hellenic) | Knaanic (Slavic) | Judæo-Marathi (Indic)

Turkic	Dravidian	Kartvelian
Krymchak \| Karaim	Judeo-Malayalam	Gruzinic

v • d • e</div> Turkic languages
West Turkic
Bolgar	Bolgar* \| Chuvash \| Hunnic* \| Khazar*
Chagatay	Aini²\| Chagatay* \| Ili Turki \| Lop \| Uyghur \| Uzbek
Kypchak	Baraba \| Bashkir \| Crimean Tatar¹ \| Cuman* \| Karachay-Balkar \| Karaim \| Karakalpak \| Kazakh \| Kipchak* \| Krymchak \| Kumyk \| Nogay \| Tatar \| Urum¹
Oghuz	Afshar \| Azerbaijani \| Crimean Tatar¹ \| Gagauz \| Khorasani Turkish \| Ottoman Turkish* \| Pecheneg* \| Qashqai \| Salar \| Turkish \| Turkmen \| Urum¹
East Turkic
Khalaj	Khalaj
Kyrgyz-Kypchak	Altay \| Kyrgyz
Uyghur	Chulym \| Dolgan \| Fuyü Gïrgïs \| Khakas \| Northern Altay \| Shor \| Tofa \| Tuvan \| Western Yugur \| Sakha / Yakut
Old Turkic*
Notes: ¹ Listed in more than one group, ² Mixed language, * Extinct