Balkan Gagauz Turkish

Balkan Gagauz Turkish
Rumeli Türkçesi
Native to Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia
Native speakers
330,000 (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. It is a different language from Gagauz[3] and Turkish.

References

  1. Balkan Gagauz Turkish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish


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