Diglossia and the Boundaries of Traditional Culture in the Karaite Community of the Crimea in the 19th Century
Journal: Kulʹtura slavân i kulʹtura evreev: dialog, shodstva, različiâ
Year: 2024

This article seeks to address two key questions: To what extent did the existing linguistic landscape within the Karaite community of Crimea delineate the boundaries of traditional culture? And how did the evolution of literary language reflect the modernization that the Karaites of the Russian Empire experienced at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries? Despite a notable increase in scholarly publications over recent decades focusing on the linguistic situation in the 19th -century Karaite co