Balkan Gagauz Turkish language
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| Balkan Gagauz Turkish | ||
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| Spoken in: | Turkey, Greece, Republic of Macedonia | |
| Total speakers: | 331,000 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] Turkic Oghuz Balkan Gagauz Turkish |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | bgx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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 Macedonia. Dialects include Gajol, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk, and Macedonian Gagauz. This is a different language from Gagauz [2] and Turkish.
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- ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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