Balkan languages

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This is a list of languages spoken in the Balkans. With the exception of Turkish and Circassian, all of them belong to the Indo-European family.

Contents 1 Indo-European languages 1.1 Romance languages 1.2 Slavic languages 1.3 Indo-Aryan languages 2 Turkish languages 3 Ibero-Caucasian languages 4 Extinct languages 5 See also

Indo-European languages

• Albanian
• Armenian
• Greek

Romance languages

• Romanian
• Aromanian
• Meglenitic
• Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
• Ladino (in Greece and Turkey)

Slavic languages

• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Serbian
• Macedonian
• Croatian
• Slovenian

Indo-Aryan languages

• Romany

Turkish languages

• Crimean Tatar, Tatar
• Turkish (Osmanli)
• Gagauz

Ibero-Caucasian languages

• Circassian

Extinct languages

These are extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans

• Ancient Macedonian (often classified among the archaic dialects of the living Greek language)
• Dacian
• Dalmatian (an extinct Romance language)
• Eteocretan
• Eteocypriot
• Illyrian
• Lemnian
• Liburnian
• Paionian
• Pelasgian
• Phrygian
• Thracian
• Yevanic (Judeo-Greek)

See also

• Balkan linguistic union
• Paleo-Balkan languagesast:Llinguas de los Balcanes

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