Armeno-Kipchak (''Xıpçaχ tili'', ''Tatarça'')
was a
Turkic language
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belonging to the
Kipchak branch of the family that was spoken in
Crimea
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during the 14–15th centuries. The language has been documented from the literary monuments of 16–17th centuries written in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern day
Ukraine
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) in the
Armenian script
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. Armeno-Kipchak resembles the language of ''
Codex Cumanicus
The Codex Cumanicus is a linguistic manual of the Middle Ages, designed to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Cumans, a nomadic Turkic people. It is currently housed in the Library of St. Mark, in Venice (BNM ms Lat. Z. 549 (=159 ...
'', which was compiled in the 13th century.
Speakers of the Armeno-Kipchak are considered to be
linguistically assimilated Armenians
Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...
.
Armeno-Kipchak-speakers generally identified as Armenian.
See also
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Crimean Tatar language
Crimean Tatar (), also called Crimean (), is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Turkey and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada. It should not ...
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Karaim language
The Karaim language ( Crimean dialect: , ; Trakai dialect: ), also known by its Hebrew name Lashon Kedar (, “language of the nomads"), is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak group, with Hebrew influences, similarly to Yiddish or Jud ...
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Krymchak language
Krymchak ( ; , ''Qrımçah tılyı''; also called Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Krimchak, Chagatai, Dzhagatay) is a moribund Turkic language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people. The Krymchak community was composed of Jewish immigrants who arrived from ...
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Urum language
Urum (, ) is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand ethnic Greeks who inhabit a few villages in southeastern Ukraine. Over the past few generations, there has been a deviation from teaching children Urum to the more common languages of th ...
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Armenians in Ukraine
Armenians in Ukraine (; ) are ethnic Armenians who live in Ukraine. They number 99,894 according to the 2001 Ukrainian census.[Armenians in Poland
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References
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Agglutinative languages
Kipchak languages
Extinct languages of Europe
Ethnic Armenian people