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Balkan Gagauz Turkish

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Native speakers
  
330,000 (1993)

Glottolog
  
balk1254

ISO 639-3
  
bgx

Native to
  
Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia

Language family
  
Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Turkish group Balkan Gagauz Turkish

Balkan Gagauz Turkish, also known as Balkan Turkic, is a Turkic language spoken in European Turkey, in Dulovo and the Deliorman area in Bulgaria, and in the Kumanovo and Bitola areas of the Republic of Macedonia. Dialects include Gajal, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk, and Macedonian Gagauz. This is a different language from Gagauz and Turkish.

References

Balkan Gagauz Turkish Wikipedia