Re: Brithenig
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 6, 2000, 9:35 |
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At 12:49 05.4.2000 -0400, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> >I planned on also making the Modern Khazar conlang (having convergence
> >with Judean Romance), but i could never find anything anywhere about the
> >Khazar language, besides a picture at www.khazaria.com of a Khazar
> >engraving that says _hoqurüm_ "i have read [it]" according to the
> >caption.
>
>It seems that the Khazar language has its present-day descendants
>in the two dialects of Karaim.
Which has some weird features. Apparently vowel harmony has been replaced
by consonant palatalization harmony.
Otherwise the differences between the various Turkic languages seem to be
slight, with Karaite and Turkish of Turkey being the two most divergent.
Thought: may it have been the case that the orthodox majority of the
Khazars indeed switched to Yiddish at some time, without being a majority
among the Ashkenazim -- a large population can also be accounted for by a
long period of undisturbed baby-making, you know! :-)
OTOH the historic sources seem to suggest that the Khazars never
really abandoned the nomadic way of life: an unlikely lot to end up in a
_shtetl_. The more likely fate would be extermination on the battlefield,
at the hands of Muslim Turks or Mongols.
Come to think of it, I don't know what the Karaite doctrine entails. Steg?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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