Balkan Gagauz Turkish
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| Balkan Gagauz Turkish | |
|---|---|
| Rumeli Türkçesi | |
| Native to | Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia |
Native speakers | (330,000 cited 1993)[1] |
Turkic
| |
| Latin script, Cyrillic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bgx |
| Glottolog | balk1254[2] |
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.[3] Dialects include Gajal, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk, and Macedonian Gagauz. Although it is mutually intelligible with both Gagauz[3] and Turkish to a considerable degree, it is usually classified as a separate language due to foreign influences from neighboring languages spoken in the Balkans.
References[edit]
- ^ Balkan Gagauz Turkish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Balkan Gagauz Turkish". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ a b Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish
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