TRADITIONAL KARAITE CULT TERMINOLOGY BASEDON INVENTORY OF KENASА PROPERTY AND OTHER SOURCES
Karaites who lived in Crimea until the middle of the XX century were Turkic speaking. A distinctive feature of the language of the Crimean Karaites was the presence of a large layer of religious vocabulary in Hebrew - “sacred language” in it, which represented a kind of linguistic enclave resistant to language assimilation. Despite this, the most common part of religious vocabulary, in particular, cult terminology was subject to a certain influence on the part of the Crimean Tatar language. The terms referring to cult objects and their details, as well as temple utensils, mostly had Turkic (or Russian) analogues, and in rare cases were completely replaced by Turkic ones. This work is the first experience of the reconstruction of the now-lost Turkic terminology of cult objects of the Crimean Karaites based on inventory of kenаsa property and other sources.