Emergence and Evolution of the West Karaim Bible Translation Tradition
Journal: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 2023

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; Karaim is a severely endangered language belonging to the Turkic language family and its only surviving dialect is Northwest Karaim with speakers in Lithuania and Poland. In the past few years numerous Karaim translations of the Bible have been discovered. Some of these are among the oldest texts written in this language. The authors present some of the oldest Karaim texts known today as well as recently discovered Karaim translations of the entire Tanakh. It is shown how th