Krymchak language
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The Krymchak language (кърымчах тыльы) is the language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people. It is often considered to be a Crimean Tatar dialect. The language is sometimes referred to as Judeo-Crimean Tatar.
Like most Jewish languages, it contains a large number of Hebrew loanwords. Before the Soviet era it was written using Hebrew characters. In the Soviet Union in the 1930s this language was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a variant of the Latin alphabet), like Crimean Tatar and Karaim). Now it is written in Cyrillic script.
The community was decimated during the Holocaust. Only about a thousand Krymchak people remain in Crimea. Nowadays the language is almost extinct. Today it is a native language for only three persons, all of an advanced age, and about a hundred can speak it.
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