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, Hungarian, and Circassian, 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.

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Indo-European languages [edit]

Albanian [edit]

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

Hellenic languages [edit]

Romance languages [edit]

Slavic languages [edit]

Western South Slavic [edit]

Transitional dialects [edit]

Eastern South Slavic [edit]

Indo-Aryan languages [edit]

Uralic languages [edit]

Turkic languages [edit]

Ibero-Caucasian languages [edit]

Extinct languages [edit]

These are extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans

See also [edit]