Review of Nesrin Gulludağ, Kırımçak Turkçesi Grameri ‘A Grammar of Krymchak Turkic’, Ankara: Gece Kitaplığı. 2014, 496 pages. ISBN 9786054942619.
Journal: Karaite Archives
Year: 2014

The Qrimchaqs (Qırımçaqs / Qrımçaqs / Krimchaks / Krymchaks / Krymčaks etc.) were a Rabbanite-Jewish territorial-cultural-linguistic community.They were characterized by their residence in the Crimea, by their Turkic speech, and by the Rabbanite version of their Judaism that made them distinctive of the Crimean Karaites.Until the mid-1850s they had submitted to the leadership of the Karaites, and their entire history was marked by a long and sometimes problematic dialogue with their Karaite bret