Balkan Gagauz Turkish
| Balkan Gagauz Turkish | |
|---|---|
| Rumeli Türkçesi | |
| Native to | Turkey, Greece, Macedonia |
Native speakers | 330,000 (1993)[1] |
| 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, Greece, 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. This is a different language from Gagauz[3] and Turkish.
References
- ↑ Balkan Gagauz Turkish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Balkan Gagauz Turkish". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish
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