Editing Karaim language (section)

===Language health===
Most<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dryga |first=İryna M. |title=Endangered languages of the Caucasus and beyond |publisher=Brill |editor-first1=Ramazan |editor-last1=Korkmaz |editor-first2=Gürkan |editor-last2=Doğan |year=2016 |isbn=978-90-04-32869-3 |location=Leiden |pages=51–59 |chapter=International Research Collaboration on Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Turkic Languages in Ukraine: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karaim, Qrymchak and Urum Experience |doi=10.1163/9789004328693_005 |oclc=962065278}}</ref> dialects of Karaim are now extinct. Maintenance of the Karaim language in [[Lithuania]] is now endangered due to the dispersal of Karaim speakers under the [[Soviet regime]] in the [[aftermath of World War II]] and the very small number and old age of fluent speakers remaining.{{sfn|Csató|2001}} Children and grandchildren of Karaim speakers speak [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], or [[Russian language|Russian]], and only the oldest generation still speaks Karaim.