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

Summary/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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