Karaite

Karaite or Qaraite may refer to:

• Karaite Judaism, a Jewish religious movement that rejects the Talmud
  • Crimean Karaites, an ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Eastern Europe
    • Karaim language, a Turkic language of Crimean Karaites. It is often considered an ethnolect or divergent dialect group of the Crimean Tatar language.
  • Constantinopolitan Karaites, an ethnic group derived from Grecophone adherents of Karaite Judaism in and around Constantinople (now Istanbul)
    • Yevanic language or Karaeo-Greek, a Hellenic language of the Constantinopolitan Karaites. It is considered an ethnolect of Koine Greek.

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