Re: Khazars (PS)

At 18:20 -0400 on 20.9.1998, Steg Belsky wrote:


> I forgot....is it known what the correct pronounciation of their name for
> themselves was?  Because it's Kuzar in Hebrew and Khazar in English.
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
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Not sure. "Khazar" is from the Russian name for them, wc in turn is from
the Greek, but i guess it's an attempt at phonetic rendering.

Re: Khazars/Kara'ites: I'm not an expert on neither Judaism or Turkic
languages and peoples, only a part-time Iranist who tries to keep track on
events in that part of the world.

But I asked someone who maybe knew.  She said that _probably_ Rabbinic
Khazars eventually became "Yiddishized", while the Kara'ite ones didn't.
The Kara'ite language is in any case a very peculiar Turkic language wich
must have split off early, and it certainly belongs to the same subgroup as
the Khazar language.

/BP


B.Philip. Jonsson <bpj@...>

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