Karaim letters of Jehoszafat Kapłanowski. II. Linguistic analysis
Journal: Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)
Year: 2013

In the first part of this study (Németh 2013a) a critical edition of two Karaim letters is presented. They were sent in 1868 from Odessa to addressees living Lutsk by a citizen born in Trakai. This paper (the second part of the study) contains a detailed linguistic analysis of the letters. Special attention is paid to the dialectal affiliation of the manuscripts’ linguistic material, to interdialectal contacts and to the irregularities recorded