Krimchak

JCT

nearly extinct

Alternate Names: Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Judeo-Crimean Turkish

Dialects: None known. Reportedly similar to Crimean Tatar ,.

Genealogy:

Altaic
Turkic
Western
Ponto-Caspian

Demographics: 200 (Salminen 2007). Ethnic population: 1,800 (Salminen 2007). 1,200 ethnic Krimchak in the Crimea, 600 elsewhere (Salminen 2007).

Language Use: Rarely used even by the elderly who know it (Salminen 2007). Only those 70 years and older are fluent (Salminen 2007).

Writing System: Cyrillic, Latin

Nation of Origin: Ukraine

Other Comments: Jewish (Karaite).