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Balkan Gagauz, Balkan Turkish or Rumelian Turkish (Turkish: Rumeli Türkçesi), is a Turkic language spoken in European Turkey, in Dulovo and the Deliorman area in Bulgaria, the Prizren area in Kosovo, and the Kumanovo and Bitola areas of North Macedonia.[2] Dialects include Gajal, Gerlovo Turk, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk (Konyar, Yoruk), Prizren Turk, and Macedonian Gagauz.[citation needed]
| Balkan Turkish | |
|---|---|
| Rumelian Turkish, Balkan Gagauz | |
| Native to | Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo |
| Region | Balkan Peninsula |
Native speakers | 460,000 (2019)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bgx |
| Glottolog | balk1254 |
| ELP | Balkan Gagauz Turkish |
Although it is mutually intelligible with both Gagauz[2] and Turkish to a considerable degree,[citation needed] it is usually classified as a separate language,[citation needed] due to foreign influences from neighboring languages spoken in the Balkans.
Balkan Gagauz Turkish was given international prominence through the Oscar-nominated 2019 film Honeyland, in which the protagonist is an ethnic Macedonian Turk and mostly speaks in the local dialect throughout the film.
Population
editReferences
edit- 1 2 Balkan Turkish at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- 1 2 Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish
- ↑ "Macédoine (République de)". www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
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