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Languages of the Balkans

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This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled by Balkan countries. With the exception of several Turkic languages, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. A subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studied sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.

Contents

Albanian

  • Arvanitika
  • Northwestern Arvanitika
  • Southcentral Arvanitika
  • Thracean Arvanitika
  • Gheg
  • Tosk

    • Hellenic languages

  • Cappadocian Greek
  • Standard Greek
  • Pontic Greek
  • Tsakonian

    • Romantic languages

  • Aromanian
  • Istriot (in western Istria)
  • Istro-Romanian (In eastern Istria)
  • Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
  • Ladino (in Greece, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria)
  • Megleno-Romanian (Meglenenitic)
  • Romanian

    • Western South Slavic

  • Serbo-Croatian (with its standard languages Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin)
  • Shtokavian dialect
  • Chakavian dialect
  • Kajkavian dialect
  • Slovenian

    • Transitional dialects

  • Transitional Serbo-Croatian dialects (Torlakian/Našinski)
  • Transitional Bulgarian dialects

    • Eastern South Slavic

  • Bulgarian
  • Macedonian

    • Indo-Aryan languages

  • Romani

    • Turkic languages

  • Crimean Tatar
  • Gagauz
  • Tatar
  • Turkish

    • Caucasian languages

  • Circassian

    • Extinct languages

    These are extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans

  • Dacian
  • Dalmatian
  • Eteocretan
  • Eteocypriot
  • Illyrian
  • Lemnian
  • Liburnian
  • Ancient Macedonian
  • Ottoman
  • Paeonian
  • Pelasgian
  • Phrygian
  • Thracian

    • References

    Languages of the Balkans Wikipedia
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