Balkan Gagauz language

Balkan Gagauz
Balkan Gagauz
Rumelian Turkish
Native to	Turkey , Greece , Bulgaria , North Macedonia , Serbia , Kosovo
Region	Balkan Peninsula
Native speakers	460,000 (2019)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Oghuz Balkan Gagauz ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script , [ citation needed ] Cyrillic alphabet [ citation needed ]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bgx
Glottolog	balk1254
ELP	Balkan Gagauz Turkish

Balkan Gagauz , Balkan Turkish or Rumelian ( Turkish : Rumeli Turkcesi ), 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, Karamanli , Kyzylbash , Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk (Konyar, Yoruk), Prizren Turk, and Macedonian Gagauz. ^{[
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Although it is mutually intelligible with both Gagauz ^[2] and Turkish to a considerable degree, it is usually classified as a separate language, ^{[
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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 [ edit ]

There were around 460,000 speakers of Balkan Gagauz Turkish in Turkey in 2019 ^[1] and an estimated 4,000 in North Macedonia in 2018. ^[3]

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b Balkan Gagauz at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
^ ^a ^b Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish
^ "Macedoine (Republique de)" . www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca . Retrieved 2021-10-07 .

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[e24-1] Balkan Gagauz at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)

[Ethnologue-2] Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish

[3] "Macedoine (Republique de)" . www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca . Retrieved 2021-10-07 .

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