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Krimchak is the language of the Krimchak Jews, a very small Jewish group that lived in the Crimean peninsula.
They settled in Crimea probably in the 16th century and they spoke a variant of Crimean Tatar, but used the Hebrew alphabet. Their origins are pretty unclear, but it is possible that they were converted to Judaism during the Khazar Empire.
In 1926, there were about 6,000 speakers, but now there are only a few individuals speaking it and there are not any known communities.
