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Karaim literature as a source of information on the spoken language. A case study of the early 20th-century Lutsk Karaim dialect

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Németh M.

Karaite Archives

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2013

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issue 1

113-132

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The present article presents an analysis of a Lutsk Karaim literary work, namely Sergiusz Rudkowski’s Dostłar, which was published in two parts in 1931 and 1939. The two characters of the drama use colloquial language and therefore the work appears to be until now the only source of knowledge on Lutsk Karaim in its spoken form. The linguistic peculiarities of the drama are compared with other non-literary sources that reflect everyday language used at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The present study has been carried out in order to determine whether the language of the drama was caricatured by the author, and thus exaggerated to some extent, or whether it reflects the factual command of Karaim during that period. In the final analysis, it is safe to say that the drama’s language should be treated as a reliable source of knowledge. It is important to note that it contains linguistic elements (swearwords, abusive words, Hebrew elements, &c.) that are absent from all other colloquial linguistic materials.

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A record of the living Karaim folklore of Crimea. The copybooks of Yosif Kefeli

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Sulimowicz A.

Almanach Karaimski

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2016

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vol. 5

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Following the annexation of the Crimea by the Bolsheviks, traditional Karaim folklore found itself endangered by the ongoing process of Sovietisation which intensified after WWII and the deportations of the Crimean Tatars. Following a request from Józef Sulimowicz, a Polish collector of Caraimica, in the early 1960s, Yosif Kefeli (1900–1976), a Karaim from Simferopol, started to write down or copy various works of Crimean Karaim popular literature. He filled a few copybooks with popular songs, poems and proverbs as well as with theatre plays penned by Karaim dramatists such as A.O. Levi and A.I. Katyk. Written in the Cyrillic alphabet, Kefeli’s copybooks today constitute part of Sulimowicz’s collection of Karaim manuscripts. The present article provides a review of the content of these manuscripts, with particular attention paid to those works, which may be regarded as manifestations of the Karaim folklore that was still alive at the time.

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Nieznany przekład Roty na język karaimski

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Sulimowicz A.

Almanach Karaimski

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2015

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vol. 4

101-116

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Najstarsze przekłady literatury polskiej pochodzą z XVII w. Na język karaimski przetłumaczono m.in. utwory Jana Kochanowskiego i Adama Mickiewicza. Odnaleziony ostatnio w zbiorach rękopisów Józefa Sulimowicza przekład Roty pozwala dodać do listy tłumaczonych pisarzy Marię Konopnicką. Tłumaczem był Leon Eszwowicz, nauczyciel religii w Haliczu. Jego przekład, choć nie odznaczający się walorami literackim, jest interesującym przykładem zainteresowania Karaimów literaturą polską.

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The oldest known translations of Polish literature into the Karaim language date back to the 17th century. Among those poets whose works have been translated we find Jan Kochanowski and Adam Mickiewicz. Another Polish author that can be read in Karaim is Maria Konopnicka. A translation of her work Rota (The Oath) was recently discovered in the Józef Sulimowicz manuscript collection means. The translator was Leon Eszwowicz, who taught religion to Karaite children in Halicz. Although his translation is not of great or significant literary value, it remains an interesting example of the interest shown by Karaites in Polish literature.

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Karaim literature as a source of information on the spoken language. A case study of the early 20th-century Lutsk Karaim dialect

A record of the living Karaim folklore of Crimea. The copybooks of Yosif Kefeli

Nieznany przekład Roty na język karaimski