Halych Karaim
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Notes
- Because the speakers of Karaim belong to the same ethno-religious group, there is a general consensus that speakers of the Trakai, Halych-Lutsk, and Crimean varieties all speak the same language.
- The Halych-Lutsk dialect of Karaim has undergone a number of significant phonological changes as compared to other varieties of Karaim:
- Shift of consonants: č→ts, š→s
- Collapse of k/t distinction before i: e.g. tiz~kiz "knee"
- Loss of front rounded vowels: ü→i, ö→e
References
Баскаков, Н. А., А. Зайончковский, С.М. Шапшал, eds. 1974. Караимско-Русско-Польский Словарь. Москва: Изд-во «Русский Язык».